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Shellshock mitigation with BIG-IP iRules

Yesterday, NIST released information on a new network exploitable vulnerability in the GNU Bash shell as demonstrated by vectors involving parts of OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi, and mod_cgid modules in ...
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Carlos_Rubio_69
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Sep 26, 2014
About this couple of iRules (which btw I've joined into a single one), I´m concerned about it´s impact on performance. I have several web portals with many users on everyone. If I check every request, and for every request I check it´s URI and (even more) every single header, I think this could lead to a very high resources consumption. Any of you have had any issue about performance after enable this irule (on several VS's)? Thanks in advance.