SB2023020310 - Denial of service in BIG-IP Advanced WAF and ASM bd process



SB2023020310 - Denial of service in BIG-IP Advanced WAF and ASM bd process

Published: February 3, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023020310
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-23552)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to system does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the bd process. A remote attacker can send specially crafted traffic to the device and cause increase in memory resource utilization, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition of the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) process.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.