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CVE-2016-6817
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-08-10T22:29:00.233 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:51:49.920

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.

Affected products

apache — tomcat

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References

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