Bug ID 672039: Portal access fails with java exceptions for Oracle E-Business application

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4

Opened: Jun 30, 2017

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

When the META-INF/INDEX.LIST file is present in one of application jar files, additional jars could be requested with unmangled URL. APM will block these requests and Java application will fail to start.

Impact

Oracle webforms failed to load

Conditions

[Java Patcher] Absolute paths in JAR Index are not patched

Workaround

The only workaround is to make all paths in META-INF/INDEX.LIST file of application jar file relative to the codebase and resign it.

Fix Information

None

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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