Last Modified: Oct 17, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
11.4.1, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2
Fixed In:
12.1.0
Opened: Jun 05, 2015 Severity: 3-Major
Connection hangs when large pipelined requests are received from client and the server sends an HTTP response with incorrect content length.
Connection fails to close. For large pipelined requests, TCP window is closed and connection hangs.
Client sends a pipelined request. Misbehaving server sends improper response with incorrect content length. BigIP forwards the improper response to client and fails to close the connection. For large pipelined requests, TCP window is closed and connection hangs.
None
A BigDB variable tmm.http.passthru.invalid_content_length has been added for configurable tolerance of invalid content-length received from the server.