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Red Hat JBossEAP: Classic Buffer Overflow (CVE-2016-6808)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: Classic Buffer Overflow (CVE-2016-6808)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/06/2016
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/20/2024

Description

Buffer overflow in Apache Tomcat Connectors (mod_jk) before 1.2.42.. It was found that the length checks prior to writing to the target buffer for creating a virtual host mapping rule did not take account of the length of the virtual host name, creating the potential for a buffer overflow.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

References

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