Bug ID 671314: BIG-IP system cores when sending SIP SCTP traffic

Last Modified: Oct 07, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1

Fixed In:
14.0.0, 13.1.0, 12.1.3.6

Opened: Jun 27, 2017

Severity: 2-Critical

Related Article: K37093335

Symptoms

Virtual servers with an SCTP profile and a SIP message-routing profile may crash the TMM.

Impact

TMM crashes and fails over, disrupting traffic processing. Traffic disrupted while TMM restarts.

Conditions

This flaw affects virtual servers that pass SCTP traffic, where the SIP message-routing profile has the record-route option enabled.

Workaround

Remove the record-route option, or change the traffic to use TCP or UDP instead of SCTP.

Fix Information

This crash has been fixed.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

K10134038: F5 Bug Tracker Filter Names and Tips