Under certain conditions, the Intel QuickAssist Technology (QAT) cryptography driver may produce a Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) core file. (CVE-2020-5882)
Impact
The BIG-IP system temporarily fails to process traffic as it recovers from TMM restarting, and systems configured as part of a high availability (HA) group may fail over. This vulnerability applies to the following platforms:
Note: BIG-IP VE cryptographic and compression offload is a licensed feature available only on the KVM hypervisor. If you have licensed this feature (a BIG-IP VE using the affected Intel QAT hardware [Lewisburg and Lewis Hill QAT devices] with an affected Intel QAT SR-IOV VF driver included in the BIG-IP VE version) then the Intel QAT PF (Lewisburg and Lewis Hill QAT devices) driver installed on the host is vulnerable. Under this very explicit KVM scenario, a BIG-IP VE is vulnerable.