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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2019.0935
BIG-IP HSB vulnerability CVE-2019-6604
22 March 2019
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: F5 BIG-IP products
Publisher: F5 Networks
Operating System: Network Appliance
Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote/Unauthenticated
Resolution: Patch/Upgrade
CVE Names: CVE-2019-6604
Original Bulletin:
https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K26455071
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K26455071:BIG-IP HSB vulnerability CVE-2019-6604
Security Advisory
Original Publication Date: 22 Mar, 2019
Security Advisory Description
Under certain conditions, hardware systems with a High-Speed Bridge (HSB) using
non-default Layer 2 forwarding configurations may experience a lockup of the
HSB. (CVE-2019-6604)
This vulnerability occurs when all of the following conditions are met:
o A VLAN group is configured.
o The vlangroup.flow.allocate database key is disabled.
Note: This is not the default configuration.
o You are running the BIG-IP system or BIG-IP Virtual Clustered
Multiprocessing (vCMP) guests on one of the following hardware platforms:
BIG-IP i850 (C117)
BIG-IP i2x00 (C117)
BIG-IP 3900 (C106)
BIG-IP i4x00 (C115)
BIG-IP 5000 (C109)
BIG-IP i5x00 (C119)
BIG-IP i5820-DF (C125)
BIG-IP 6900 (D104)
BIG-IP 7000 (D110)
BIG-IP 8900 (D106)
BIG-IP i7x00 (C118)
BIG-IP i7820-DF (C126)
BIG-IP 8950 (D107)
BIG-IP 10000/102x0/ (D113)
BIG-IP 10350 (D112)
BIG-IP i10x00 (C116)
BIG-IP 11000 (E101)
BIG-IP 11050 (E102)
BIG-IP i11x00 (C123)
BIG-IP i11800-DS (C124)
BIG-IP 12250 (D111)
BIG-IP i15x00 (D116)
VIPRION 2400 (B2100, B2150, B2250)
VIPRION (B4100, B4200, B4300, B4340, B4450)
Note: BIG-IP Virtual Edition (VE) and Cloud Edition products are not affected.
Impact
The BIG-IP system stops processing traffic, eventually leading to a failover to
another host in the high availability (HA) group.
Security Advisory Status
F5 Product Development has assigned ID 722677 (BIG-IP) to this vulnerability.
To determine if your product and version have been evaluated for this
vulnerability, refer to the Applies to (see versions) box. 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. For more information
about security advisory versioning, refer to K51812227: Understanding Security
Advisory versioning.
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| | |Versions |Fixes | |CVSSv3|Vulnerable|
|Product |Branch|known to |introduced|Severity |score^|component |
| | |be |in | |1 |or feature|
| | |vulnerable| | | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| |14.x |14.0.0 |14.1.0 | | | |
| | | |14.0.0.3 | | | |
| +------+----------+----------+ | | |
|BIG-IP (LTM, AAM, |13.x |13.0.0 - |13.1.1.2 | | | |
|AFM, Analytics, | |13.1.1 | | | | |
|APM, ASM, DNS, Edge+------+----------+----------+ | | |
|Gateway, FPS, GTM, |12.x |12.1.0 - |12.1.3.7 |High |7.5 |TMM |
|Link Controller, | |12.1.3 | | | | |
|PEM, +------+----------+----------+ | | |
|WebAccelerator) | |11.2.1 - | | | | |
| |11.x |11.5.8 |11.5.9 | | | |
| | |11.6.0 - |11.6.4 | | | |
| | |11.6.3 | | | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
|Enterprise Manager |3.x |None |Not |Not |None |None |
| | | |applicable|vulnerable| | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| |6.x |None |Not | | | |
| | | |applicable| | | |
| +------+----------+----------+ | | |
|BIG-IQ Centralized |5.x |None |Not |Not |None |None |
|Management | | |applicable|vulnerable| | |
| +------+----------+----------+ | | |
| |4.x |None |Not | | | |
| | | |applicable| | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
|BIG-IQ Cloud and |1.x |None |Not |Not |None |None |
|Orchestration | | |applicable|vulnerable| | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
|F5 iWorkflow |2.x |None |Not |Not |None |None |
| | | |applicable|vulnerable| | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
| |5.x |None |Not | | | |
| | | |applicable|Not | | |
|Traffix SDC +------+----------+----------+vulnerable|None |None |
| |4.x |None |Not | | | |
| | | |applicable| | | |
+-------------------+------+----------+----------+----------+------+----------+
^1The CVSSv3 score link takes you to a resource outside of AskF5, and it is
possible that the document may be removed without our knowledge.
Security Advisory 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 Fixes introduced in 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.
Mitigation
To mitigate this vulnerability, you can enable the vlangroup.flow.allocate
database variable to allow the system to forward packets between VLAN group
members. To do so, perform the following procedure.
Enabling the vlangroup.flow.allocate database variable
1. Log in to the TMOS Shell (tmsh) by typing the following command:
tmsh
2. Set the vlangroup.flow.allocate database key to enable by typing the
following command:
modify /sys db vlangroup.flow.allocate value enable
3. Save the change by typing the following command:
save /sys config
Supplemental Information
o K14566: The High-Speed Bridge may lock up when using certain VLAN group
configurations
o K51812227: Understanding Security Advisory versioning
o K41942608: Overview of Security Advisory articles
o K4602: Overview of the F5 security vulnerability response policy
o K4918: Overview of the F5 critical issue hotfix policy
o K9502: BIG-IP hotfix and point release matrix
o K167: Downloading software and firmware from F5
o K9970: Subscribing to email notifications regarding F5 products
o K9957: Creating a custom RSS feed to view new and updated documents
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