Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS
Known Affected Versions:
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
Fixed In:
13.0.0, 12.1.3.6
Opened: Jun 14, 2016 Severity: 2-Critical
The tmipsecd daemon can leave a core when it exits main().
Generation of a distracting core, using disk space and attracting user attention unnecessarily. (Since tmipsecd was restarting anyway, the restart is not extra impact.)
When tmipsecd exits deliberately, say in response to an exception, this can crash during program cleanup, despite the cleanup not being necessary. What begins as a clean termination turns into a messy crash.
there is no workaround.
When a tmipsecd process terminates, cleaning up globals on shutdown is unnecessary, so this has now been prevented. So we cannot get a core when cleanup fails.