K55225440 : BIG-IP SOCKS proxy vulnerability CVE-2017-6148

Security Advisory Description

Responses to SOCKS proxy requests made through the BIG-IP system may cause a disruption of service provided by the Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM). The data plane is impacted and exposed only when a SOCKS proxy profile is attached to a virtual server. The control plane is not impacted by this vulnerability. (CVE-2017-6148)

Impact

An attacker may be able to perform a denial-of-service (DoS) attack on a BIG-IP system by causing the TMM process to restart.