Bug ID 540054: tmm crash when DoS protection and behavior analysis enabled on virtual server

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP AFM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 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, 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: Aug 14, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

tmm crash when DoS protection and behavior analysis enabled on virtual server.

Impact

Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

This occurs when the following conditions are met: 1) Provision AFM and LTM. 2) Enable DoS protection, Behavior Analysis in DoS profiles. 3) DoS profile is associated on a virtual server 4) Bad packets are sent to the virtual server.

Workaround

DoS-network behavioral analysis should be never configured since it does not provide any needed functionality. If any security dos profiles contain 'behavioral-analysis enabled', these should be changed to 'behavioral-analysis disabled.

Fix Information

The configuration of DoS-network behavioral analysis is no longer available, so the issue cannot occur.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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