CVE-2016-6808

Publication date 12 April 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

Buffer overflow in Apache Tomcat Connectors (mod_jk) before 1.2.42.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libapache-mod-jk	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

sbeattie

only affected in MS IIS environments.

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libapache-mod-jk	Upstream: http://svn.apache.org/r1762057

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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