Description
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.
Published: 2017-02-17
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 13.8% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-823-2 tomcat7 regression update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3204-1 Tomcat vulnerability
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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Debian Debian Linux
Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T15:18:49.680Z

Reserved: 2017-02-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-6056

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-02-17T07:59:00.997

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-6056

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2015-02-06T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-6056 - Bugzilla

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