VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-4638

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Published 2015-09-18 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

The FastL4 virtual server in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, and PEM 11.3.0 through 11.5.2 and 11.6.0 through 11.6.0 HF4, BIG-IP Edge Gateway, WebAccelerator, and WOM 11.2.1 through 11.3.0, and BIG-IP PSM 11.2.1 through 11.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Traffic Management Microkernel restart) via a fragmented packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.3.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.4.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_advanced_firewall_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_analytics11.3.0
f5big-ip_analytics11.4.0
f5big-ip_analytics11.4.1
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.0
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.1
f5big-ip_analytics11.5.2
f5big-ip_analytics11.6.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.3.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.4.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_application_security_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_edge_gateway11.2.1
f5big-ip_edge_gateway11.3.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.3.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.4.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_global_traffic_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_link_controller11.3.0
f5big-ip_link_controller11.4.0
f5big-ip_link_controller11.4.1
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.0
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.1
f5big-ip_link_controller11.5.2
f5big-ip_link_controller11.6.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.3.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.4.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_local_traffic_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.3.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.4.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.4.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.0
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.1
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.5.2
f5big-ip_policy_enforcement_manager11.6.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.2.1
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.3.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.4.0
f5big-ip_protocol_security_module11.4.1
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.2.1
f5big-ip_webaccelerator11.3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.