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Debian: CVE-2017-7651: mosquitto -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Apr 24, 2018
Added
Oct 26, 2018
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in connection phase of MQTT protocol.

Solution

debian-upgrade-mosquitto
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