Bug ID 586862: Tcl evaluation outside of an iRule can lead to tmm crash when the payload is synchronously released from below HTTP via an iRule.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.0, 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, 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, 12.1.0, 12.1.1, 12.1.2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6

Fixed In:
13.0.0

Opened: Apr 12, 2016

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K30859144

Symptoms

Tcl expression evaluations (outside of an iRule) can lead to tmm crash when the payload is synchronously released from below HTTP via an iRule. A couple of examples where Tcl expressions are evaluated outside the context of an iRule include the tcl-setvar action of LTM Policy and the Request Header Insert feature of the HTTP profile.

Impact

Traffic disrupted while tmm restarts.

Conditions

Issue has been found on a virtual server with both an attached iRule and LTM Policy. The iRule calls TCP::collect when connection is accepted, and calls TCP::release at the CLIENT_DATA event. The LTM Policy has a single action to set a tcl set-variable expression.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

Tcl evaluation outside of an iRule no longer leads to tmm crash when the payload is synchronously released from below HTTP via an iRule.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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