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Ubuntu: USN-4023-1 (CVE-2017-7653): Mosquitto vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4023-1 (CVE-2017-7653): Mosquitto vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
06/05/2018
Created
06/25/2019
Added
06/21/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

The Eclipse Mosquitto broker up to version 1.4.15 does not reject strings that are not valid UTF-8. A malicious client could cause other clients that do reject invalid UTF-8 strings to disconnect themselves from the broker by sending a topic string which is not valid UTF-8, and so cause a denial of service for the clients.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libmosquitto1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libmosquittopp1
  • ubuntu-upgrade-mosquitto
  • ubuntu-upgrade-mosquitto-clients

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