Bug ID 575595: Potential MCPd leak in eviction policy stats.

Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 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, 11.6.1 HF1

Opened: Feb 23, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

The memory allocation for mcpd will grow by a small amount if a eviction policy stats are queried. In order to begin to impact the performance of the system, the stats would have to be queried many thousands of times.

Impact

Performance may be degraded.

Conditions

An eviction policy is configured, and the stats are displayed in TMSH or the GUI.

Workaround

None

Fix Information

Resolved a memory leak in mcpd resulting from a query of eviction policy stats.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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