CVE-2016-6817
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-08-10 22:00
Modified
2024-10-15 19:01
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| ▼ | Vendor | Product |
|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | Apache Tomcat |
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