CVE-2017-6056

It was discovered that a programming error in the processing of HTTPS requests in the Apache Tomcat servlet and JSP engine may result in denial of service via an infinite loop. The denial of service is easily achievable as a consequence of backporting a CVE-2016-6816 fix but not backporting the fix for Tomcat bug 57544. Distributions affected by this backporting issue include Debian (before 7.0.56-3+deb8u8 and 8.0.14-1+deb8u7 in jessie) and Ubuntu.
Configurations

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OR cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Information

Published : 2017-02-17 07:59

Updated : 2024-02-04 19:11


NVD link : CVE-2017-6056

Mitre link : CVE-2017-6056

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2017-6056


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Products Affected

canonical

  • ubuntu_linux

debian

  • debian_linux
CWE
CWE-835

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')