GHSA-698c-2x4j-g9gq

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Apache Tomcat

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2016-6817
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 9.0.0.M1, fixed 9.0.0.M12
Maven · org.apache.tomcat:tomcatintroduced 8.5.0, fixed 8.5.8

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database