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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-6817: Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat Version 8

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2016-6817: Vulnerability in Apache Tomcat Version 8

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-java-servlet-tomcat-8-8-5-9-0-175-3-16-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-java-servlet-tomcat-8-tomcat-admin-8-5-9-0-175-3-16-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-web-java-servlet-tomcat-8-tomcat-examples-8-5-9-0-175-3-16-0-3-0

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