Name: CVE-2016-6817: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Published: 2017-08-10T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-6817, CWE-119, CWE-835, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.0719

The HTTP/2 header parser in Apache Tomcat 9.0.0.M1 to 9.0.0.M11 and 8.5.0 to 8.5.6 entered an infinite loop if a header was received that was larger than the available buffer. This made a denial of service attack possible.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Apache Tomcat	View advisory ↗View advisory ↗View advisory ↗	apache-tomcat-upgrade-8_5_8apache-tomcat-upgrade-9_0_0apache-tomcat-8_5apache-tomcat-9_0apache-tomcat-upgrade-latest	Aug 10, 2017	Aug 10, 2017
Oracle Solaris	View advisory ↗	oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-java-servlet-tomcat-8-8-5-9-0-175-3-16-0-3-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-java-servlet-tomcat-8-tomcat-admin-8-5-9-0-175-3-16-0-3-0oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-java-servlet-tomcat-8-tomcat-examples-8-5-9-0-175-3-16-0-3-0	May 29, 2017	May 29, 2017

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