QID 377669

Date Published: 2022-11-14

QID 377669: F5 BIG-IP Bind vulnerability cve-2022-38177 (K27155546)

By spoofing the target resolver with responses that have a malformed ECDSA signature, an attacker can trigger a small memory leak. It is possible to gradually erode available memory to the point where named crashes for lack of resources.CVE-2022-38177

Vulnerable Component: BIG-IP ASM,LTM,APM

Affected Versions:
17.0.0
16.1.0 - 16.1.3
15.1.0 - 15.1.7
14.1.0 - 14.1.5
13.1.0 - 13.1.5

QID Detection Logic(Authenticated):
This QID checks for the vulnerable versions of F5 BIG-IP devices using the tmsh command.

An attacker can trigger a small memory leak. It is possible to gradually erode available memory to the point where named terminates for lack of resources.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 5.4 severity.
  • Solution
    For more information about patch details please refer to K27155546
    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    K27155546 URL Logo support.f5.com/csp/article/K27155546
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