Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM
Known Affected Versions:
11.2.1, 11.4.1, 11.5.3, 11.6.0, 12.0.0, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2
Fixed In:
12.1.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 11.6.1, 11.5.4, 11.4.1 HF10
Opened: Sep 30, 2015 Severity: 3-Major
EAM memory growing and OOM kills EAM process under memory pressure.
EAM memory usage increases and OOM kills EAM process if the system is under memory pressure.
This occurs when using access management such as Oracle Access Manager, when an authentication request is redirected to IDP (redirect URL is present) with cookies present, memory can grow unbounded.
No Workaround
EAM memory usage no longer grows. Cookie objects are deleted prior to deleting cookieMap from obAction destructor.