K01054113 : BIG-IP AWS vulnerability CVE-2020-5862

Security Advisory Description

Under certain conditions, while sending traffic, the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) may produce a core file or stop processing new traffic with the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK)/Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) driver on Amazon Web Services (AWS) systems. (CVE-2020-5862)

Impact

A remote attacker may be able to cause TMM to stop processing new traffic and effect a remote denial of service (DoS).

This issue does not affect any other hardware, virtual platforms, or cloud provider, as the affected driver is specific to AWS.