Bug ID 710277: IKEv2 further child_sa validity checks

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS(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, 13.0.0, 13.0.0 HF1, 13.0.0 HF2, 13.0.0 HF3, 13.0.1, 13.1.0, 13.1.0.1, 13.1.0.2, 13.1.0.3, 13.1.0.4, 13.1.0.5, 13.1.0.6, 13.1.0.7, 13.1.0.8, 13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4

Fixed In:
14.1.0, 14.0.0.5, 13.1.1.4, 12.1.5

Opened: Mar 15, 2018

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

A tmm restart can occur when a child_sa is rekeyed at expiration time, provided a race condition occurs.

Impact

Restart of tmm and outage of IPsec tunnels until renegotiated.

Conditions

Encountering the issue in which rekeying a child_sa might core when race conditions allowed that child_sa to be destroyed while in use.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

The validity of a child_sa and its traffic selector are checked now before use, to prevent failure when freed objects are accidentally used.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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