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ASM bd daemon crash while processing request body (SIGSEGV) – anyone seen similar behavior?
Hi,
First of all Is F5_Design_Engineer an AI companion or real person ? Responses look AI generated
Anyway. thanks for reply
I think tcpdump -i 0.0:nnn -s0 -w /var/tmp/asm_issue.pcap will not help me. It just capture all packets. But how should I find request crashing my ASM bd in that pcap file? I see no way.
I investigete log files and core dump files ( I hav a lot in /shared/core/ )
What i found in core files
1) Heap content at crash site (x/32xg 0x5690e50)
The first 8 bytes of the object at 0x5690e50 (which is also RDX) contain HTTP request data:
0x5690e50: 0x72616863203b6e69 ("in; char")
0x5690eb0: "VIOL_PAR"
0x5690ec0: "AMETER_V"
0x5690ed0: "ALUE_MET" (VIOL_PARAMETER_VALUE_METACHAR)
0x5690ee0: "00-0..." "Type":"mobi..." (JSON fragment)
Conclusion: HTTP/JSON request data has overwritten internal ASM object structures (heap corruption). The ASM engine subsequently attempted to dereference an ASCII string as a C++ object pointer.
2) Crash instruction
=> 0x7f28583bfc83: mov (%rsp),%rdi
Conclusion: Stack corruption — request data overwrote the stack frame. Two threads (LWP 13307 and LWP 13462) crashed at the same address, confirming a systematic trigger.
I found CVE-2026-22548 https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000158072 It marked as fixed in 17.1.3 But what if it is just partially fixed ?
Also I see not fixed bugs https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID1782057.html and https://cdn.f5.com/product/bugtracker/ID1755113.html
Do you know when F5 fix that two bugs?
Maybe you know existing EHF for 17.1.3.1 fixing bd SIGSEGV ? Can you Advise on interim mitigation (request size limits, specific db variables) for 17.1.3.1 ?
Nice pointers Zaulis 😉
Other than that yo are able to even read cores lol!
I suggest upgrading to the latest 17.1.5.x as you should have done so because
https://my.f5.com/manage/s/article/K000157015 and then if you see issues to open an F5 case.
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