CVE-2015-8240 (GCVE-0-2015-8240)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-11 14:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:13
VLAI
Summary
The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, and BIG-IP PEM before 11.4.1 HF10, 11.5.x before 11.5.4, and 11.6.x before 11.6.0 HF6 and BIG-IP PSM before 11.4.1 HF10 does not properly handle TCP options, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to the tm.minpathmtu database variable.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035367 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
Date Public
2016-03-16 00:00
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