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Debian: CVE-2021-34431: mosquitto -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 22, 2021
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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

debian-upgrade-mosquitto
Title
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