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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-12543: Improper Input Validation

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2018-12543: Improper Input Validation

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/15/2018
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/22/2024

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto versions 1.5 to 1.5.2 inclusive, if a message is published to Mosquitto that has a topic starting with $, but that is not $SYS, e.g. $test/test, then an assert is triggered that should otherwise not be reachable and Mosquitto will exit.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-mosquitto

References

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