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CVE-2017-6056 Detail

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.


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Hyperlink Resource
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0517.html Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0826.html Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0827.html Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0828.html Third Party Advisory 
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0829.html Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3787 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3788 Third Party Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96293 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037860 Third Party Advisory  VDB Entry 
https://bugs.debian.org/851304 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60578 Issue Tracking  Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6b414817c2b0bf351138911c8c922ec5dd577ebc0b9a7f42d705752d%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ac51944aef91dd5006b8510b0bef337adaccfe962fb90e7af9c22db4%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00038.html Third Party Advisory 
https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2017/msg00039.html Third Party Advisory 
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180731-0002/ Third Party Advisory 
https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2019-5072832.html

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2017-6056
NVD Published Date:
02/17/2017
NVD Last Modified:
11/06/2023
Source:
MITRE