F5 security advisory for BIG-IP

Number: AV16-159
Date: 05 October 2016

Purpose

The purpose of this advisory is to bring attention to a Security Advisory released by F5 for its BIG-IP products.

Assessment

A recently released F5 Security Advisory has announced a critical vulnerability VulnerabilityA flaw or weakness in the design or implementation of an information system or its environment that could be exploited to adversely affect an organization's assets or operations. affecting some of its BIG-IP products. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to modify system configurations, extract sensitive system files and/or perform arbitrary command execution.

For a list of affected products, please see reference for more information.

CVE Reference: CVE-2016-5700

Suggested Action

CCIRC recommends that system administrators test and deploy the vendor-released updates to affected applications accordingly.

References

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/k/35/sol35520031.html