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Ubuntu: USN-4023-1 (CVE-2017-7654): Mosquitto vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jun 5, 2018
Added
Jun 21, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.15 and earlier, a Memory Leak vulnerability was found within the Mosquitto Broker. Unauthenticated clients can send crafted CONNECT packets which could cause a denial of service in the Mosquitto Broker.

Solutions

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