Bug ID 903905: BIG-IQ or BIG-IP devices experience a service disruption during certain circumstances

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

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

Known Affected Versions:
15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2

Fixed In:
8.1.0.1, 16.0.0, 15.1.0.3

Opened: Apr 25, 2020

Severity: 2-Critical

Symptoms

When a BIG-IP device has been running for 8 weeks or longer without a restart of TMM or a system reboot, BIG-IP services can be disrupted.

Impact

Traffic disrupted while TMM restarts.

Conditions

-- BIG-IP device has been running for 8 weeks or longer without a TMM restart or system reboot. -- The BIG-IP system's internal risk-policy subsystem (used by the security features) has not been configured to communicate with an external risk-policy server. -- In a vCMP configuration, the BIG-IP 'host' instance is susceptible, since no security features can be configured in its context. -- A BIG-IQ device running any BIG-IQ v8.x release prior to 8.1.0.1 is also susceptible.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

This issue has been resolved and no longer occurs.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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