Bug ID 553983: Connection aborted while processing inflated server side response

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP APM, LTM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.4.1, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.5.4, 11.5.5, 11.5.6, 11.5.7, 11.5.8, 11.5.9, 11.5.10

Fixed In:
12.1.0

Opened: Oct 22, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When server-side inflate is being invoked on a completely valid compressed response, the connection is aborted.

Impact

Server side virtual server configurations with SSL and profiles or iRules involving inflating/decompressing the response may yield to aborted connections. Such configurations include but are not limited to APM Portal Access, LTM Rewrite profiles (e.g. URI-translation).

Conditions

Such a condition may occur on a virtual server configuration with a server-side SSL enabled and with any profile (or iRule) that would involve decompressing the [server-side] response (e.g. APM Portal Access, LTM Uri-Translation).

Workaround

None

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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