Vulnerability CVE-2018-5500
Published: 2018-03-01

Description:
On F5 BIG-IP systems running 13.0.0, 12.1.0 - 12.1.3.1, or 11.6.1 - 11.6.2, every Multipath TCP (MCTCP) connection established leaks a small amount of memory. Virtual server using TCP profile with Multipath TCP (MCTCP) feature enabled will be affected by this issue.

Type:

CWE-400

 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
F5 -> Big-ip access policy manager 
F5 -> Big-ip advanced firewall manager 
F5 -> Big-ip analytics 
F5 -> Big-ip application acceleration manager 
F5 -> Big-ip application security manager 
F5 -> Big-ip dns 
F5 -> Big-ip edge gateway 
F5 -> Big-ip global traffic manager 
F5 -> Big-ip link controller 
F5 -> Big-ip local traffic manager 
F5 -> Big-ip policy enforcement manager 
F5 -> Big-ip webaccelerator 
F5 -> Big-ip websafe 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/103217
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K33211839
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