High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 11, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2015-8240

Description

The Traffic Management Microkernel (TMM) in F5 BIG-IP LTM, AAM, AFM, Analytics, APM, ASM, GTM, Link Controller, and BIG-IP PEM before 11.4.1 HF10, 11.5.x before 11.5.4, and 11.6.x before 11.6.0 HF6 and BIG-IP PSM before 11.4.1 HF10 does not properly handle TCP options, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors, related to the tm.minpathmtu database variable.

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Affected products

F5, Inc./Big IPllm-fuzzy
Range: <11.4.1 HF10, <11.5.4, <11.6.0 HF6

Patches

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References

support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/k/06/sol06223540.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
www.securitytracker.com/id/1035367nvd

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