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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-34431: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-34431: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
07/22/2021
Created
03/22/2024
Added
03/21/2024
Modified
03/22/2024

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto version 1.6 to 2.0.10, if an authenticated client that had connected with MQTT v5 sent a crafted CONNECT message to the broker a memory leak would occur, which could be used to provide a DoS attack against the broker.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-mosquitto

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