Last Modified: Mar 17, 2021
Affected Product:
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BIG-IP LTM
Known Affected Versions:
10.2.4, 11.6.0, 11.6.0 HF1, 11.6.0 HF2, 11.6.0 HF3, 11.6.0 HF4, 11.6.0 HF5, 11.6.0 HF6, 11.6.0 HF7, 11.6.0 HF8, 11.6.1, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.6.1 HF2, 11.6.2, 11.6.2 HF1, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3
Fixed In:
12.0.0
Opened: Jun 27, 2015
Severity: 3-Major
Whitespace used as a keep alive between messages on TCP may produce a core within the SIP parser.
Incompatibility with some SIP clients and servers.
Some SIP clients and servers will transmit packets containing whitespace to keep a TCP connection alive. These whitespace packets are ignored by the SIP parser. In some cases, the parser may retain a reference to released data after receiving and ignoring the white space characters.
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Fix clears references to released memory when the parser discards whitespace.