Last Modified: Apr 28, 2025
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP All
Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1, 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, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4, 11.5.4 HF1, 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, 12.0.0, 12.0.0 HF1, 12.0.0 HF2, 12.0.0 HF3, 12.0.0 HF4
Fixed In:
12.1.0, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2
Opened: Feb 23, 2016 Severity: 2-Critical
Some compression requests would fail when the estimated compression output block was too small. Such errors deposit an error in the log similar to: Device error: n3-compress0 Zip engine ctx eviction (comp_code=2): ctx dropped.
The flow that encounters the error is dropped.
A block that will not compress can generate a compression output that exceeds the estimated output block size.
Disable hardware accelerated compression.
Difficult to compress requests may be dropped.