Last Modified: Oct 16, 2023
Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP TMOS
Known Affected Versions:
13.1.1, 13.1.1.2, 13.1.1.3, 13.1.1.4, 13.1.1.5, 13.1.3, 13.1.3.1, 13.1.3.2, 13.1.3.3, 13.1.3.4, 13.1.3.5, 13.1.3.6, 13.1.4, 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, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 14.1.4.4, 14.1.4.5, 14.1.4.6, 14.1.5, 14.1.5.1, 14.1.5.2, 14.1.5.3, 14.1.5.4, 14.1.5.6
Fixed In:
15.0.0, 13.1.4.1
Opened: Jan 28, 2019 Severity: 3-Major
/bin/createmanifest reads from mcpd values stored for items that are obtained from firmware. These might contain non-UTF8 characters. This program is called in qkview, which then gets updated to iHealth. If any non-UTF8 character is present, the output is omitted (because XML cannot handle non-UTF8 characters).
The upload to iHealth will not contain any of the manifest data set obtained via createmanifest.
Data stored in mcpd obtained from firmware contain non-UTF8 characters.
The values can be obtained from the qkview by reading the qkview_run.data, but the convenience of reading these in iHealth is not possible.
The corrected program converts any non-UTF8 characters into '%xx', thus outputting compliant UTF8 strings. These do not negatively impact the XML requirement, and the modified string can be uploaded to iHealth (and the non-UTF8 characters can be examined as hexadecimal values).