Denial of service in F5 Networks products - CVE-2017-6140

 

Denial of service in F5 Networks products - CVE-2017-6140

Published: December 22, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU9708
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-6140
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: F5 Networks
Affected software:
BIG-IP LTM
BIG-IP AFM
BIG-IP Analytics
BIG-IP APM
BIG-IP ASM
BIG-IP GTM
BIG-IP PEM
BIG-IP AAM
BIG-IP DNS

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in multiple F5 Networks products using virtual servers with client or server SSL profiles that use AES-GCM cipher suite due to improper processing of packets. A remote attacker can send a series of packets and cause a disruption of the data plane services on the system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

How to mitigate CVE-2017-6140

The vulnerability is addressed in the following versions: 11.5.5, 11.6.2, 11.5.5, 13.0.0.

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