Out-of-Bounds Affecting tomcat package, versions [0,8.5.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.65% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TOMCAT-2382436
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed10 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Aug 2017

CVE-2016-6817  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade tomcat to version 8.5.8 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

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