Bug ID 783293: Special chars < > & displayed incorrectly in BIG-IP GUI logon banner window

Last Modified: Sep 14, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
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, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4

Fixed In:
15.1.0

Opened: May 18, 2019

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

If you try to enter any of these three characters: < > & (greater than, less than, ampersand) into GUI Preference page or TMSH sys global-settings configuration, they are displayed as escape chars in the GUI window correspondingly as: &lt; &gt; &amp;.

Impact

At GUI Logon page, the page displays with the following characters: &lt; &gt; &amp; instead of the specified characters: < > &.

Conditions

Entering one of these three characters into GUI banner text settings: < > &.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

You can now use < > & characters for GUI logon banner text, and the system displays those characters in the GUI logon window.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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