K51754851 : BIG-IP system vulnerability CVE-2018-5512

Security Advisory Description

When Large Receive Offload (LRO) and SYN cookies are enabled (default settings), undisclosed traffic patterns may cause TMM to restart. (CVE-2018-5512)

Impact

An attacker may be able to cause a disruption of service. Exposure to this vulnerability is limited to the data plane on hardware platforms. There is no exposure to the control plane or BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE). The BIG-IP system will take the configured high availability (HA) action for the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) when experiencing this issue.