Dereferencing a NULL pointer that occurs might cause pan_task processes to crash.

Fixed an issue on Panorama appliances and Log Collectors where, after an upgrade, Elasticsearch intermittently entered into a Red state before automatically recovering.

After upgrading to an affected release, the firewall restarts continuously because the brdagent process restarts multiple times and exhausts its restart limit, resulting in a segfault error. This issue occurs when a high burst of traffic is sent to the Azure PA-VM (Palo Alto Networks Virtual Machine), and impacts production environments due to the regular reboots. Workaround : Migrate the VM instance to Dv5 instance type. On these instance types, SYN packets are not routed to the synthetic path, avoiding this condition. Suggested direct resizing paths are: D3_v2/DS3_v2 to D8ds_v5 D4_v2/DS4_v2 to D8ds_v5 D5_v2/DS5_v2 to D16ds_v5 Azure VMs with ephemeral storage can only be resized to another type with ephemeral storage.