SB2022011947 - Denial of service in BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE)
Published: January 19, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022011947
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-23030)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the ixlv driver, used by BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) on X710/XL710/XXV710 family of network adapters on the Hypervisor. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Successful vulnerability exploitation requires enabled TCP Segmentation Offload configuration.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.