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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2016.0854
sol23946311: glibc vulnerability CVE-2015-8776
5 April 2016
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: F5 BIG-IP
F5 ARX
F5 Enterprise Manager
F5 BIG-IQ
F5 Traffix SDC
Publisher: F5 Networks
Operating System: Network Appliance
Virtualisation
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2015-8776
Reference: ASB-2016.0017
ESB-2016.0394
Original Bulletin:
https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/k/23/sol23946311.html
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sol23946311: glibc vulnerability CVE-2015-8776
Security Advisory
Original Publication Date: 04/01/2016
Vulnerability Description
Passing out-of-range data to the strftime() function will access invalid
memory and cause the calling application to crash. (CVE-2015-8776 - reserved)
Impact
An application or daemon that passes out-of-range time values to the
strftime() function may crash and lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) on the
application or daemon.
Security Issue Status
F5 Product Development has assigned ID 579592 (BIG-IP), ID 579744 (BIG-IQ), ID
579747 (Enterprise Manager), ID 476571 (ARX), and CPF-19112 (Traffix SDC) to
this vulnerability, and has evaluated the currently supported releases for
potential vulnerability.
To determine if your release is known to be vulnerable, the components or
features that are affected by the vulnerability, and for information about
releases or hotfixes that address the vulnerability, refer to the following
table:
Product Versions known to be vulnerable Versions known to be not vulnerable Severity Vulnerable component or feature
BIG-IP LTM 11.0.0 - 11.6.0 12.0.0 Low glibc
10.1.0 - 10.2.4
BIG-IP AAM 11.4.0 - 11.6.0 12.0.0 Low glibc
BIG-IP AFM 11.3.0 - 11.6.0 12.0.0 Low glibc
BIG-IP Analytics 11.0.0 - 11.6.0 12.0.0 Low glibc
BIG-IP APM 11.0.0 - 11.6.0 12.0.0 Low glibc
10.1.0 - 10.2.4
BIG-IP ASM 11.0.0 - 11.6.0 12.0.0 Low glibc
10.1.0 - 10.2.4
BIG-IP DNS None 12.0.0 Low glibc
BIG-IP Edge Gateway 11.0.0 - 11.3.0 10.1.0 - 10.2.4 Low glibc
BIG-IP GTM 11.0.0 - 11.6.0 10.1.0 - 10.2.4 Low glibc
BIG-IP Link Controller 11.0.0 - 11.6.0 12.0.0 Low glibc
10.1.0 - 10.2.4
BIG-IP PEM 11.3.0 - 11.6.0 12.0.0 Low glibc
BIG-IP PSM 11.0.0 - 11.4.1 10.1.0 - 10.2.4 Low glibc
BIG-IP WebAccelerator 11.0.0 - 11.3.0 10.1.0 - 10.2.4 Low glibc
BIG-IP WOM 11.0.0 - 11.3.0 10.1.0 - 10.2.4 Low glibc
ARX 6.0.0 - 6.4.0 None Low glibc
Enterprise Manager 3.0.0 - 3.1.1 None Low glibc
FirePass None 7.0.0 Not vulnerable None
6.0.0 - 6.1.0
BIG-IQ Cloud 4.0.0 - 4.5.0 None Low glibc
BIG-IQ Device 4.2.0 - 4.5.0 None Low glibc
BIG-IQ Security 4.0.0 - 4.5.0 None Low glibc
BIG-IQ ADC 4.5.0 None Low glibc
BIG-IQ Centralized Management 4.6.0 None Low glibc
BIG-IQ Cloud and Orchestration 1.0.0 None Low glibc
LineRate None 2.5.0 - 2.6.1 Not vulnerable None
F5 WebSafe None 1.0.0 Not vulnerable None
Traffix SDC 4.0.0 - 4.4.0 None Low glibc
3.3.2 - 3.5.1
Vulnerability Recommended Actions
If you are running a version listed in the Versions known to be vulnerable
column, you can eliminate this vulnerability by upgrading to a version listed
in the Versions known to be not vulnerable column. If the table lists only an
older version than what you are currently running, or does not list a
non-vulnerable version, then no upgrade candidate currently exists.
F5 responds to vulnerabilities in accordance with the Severity values
published in the previous table. The Severity values and other security
vulnerability parameters are defined in SOL4602: Overview of the F5 security
vulnerability response policy.
Supplemental Information
SOL9970: Subscribing to email notifications regarding F5 products
SOL9957: Creating a custom RSS feed to view new and updated documents
SOL4602: Overview of the F5 security vulnerability response policy
SOL4918: Overview of the F5 critical issue hotfix policy
SOL167: Downloading software and firmware from F5
SOL13123: Managing BIG-IP product hotfixes (11.x - 12.x)
SOL9502: BIG-IP hotfix matrix
SOL15106: Managing BIG-IQ product hotfixes
SOL15113: BIG-IQ hotfix matrix
SOL12766: ARX hotfix matrix
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