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Ubuntu: USN-4137-1 (CVE-2019-11779): Mosquitto vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-4137-1 (CVE-2019-11779): Mosquitto vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/19/2019
Created
09/25/2019
Added
09/24/2019
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.5.0 to 1.6.5 inclusive, if a malicious MQTT client sends a SUBSCRIBE packet containing a topic that consists of approximately 65400 or more '/' characters, i.e. the topic hierarchy separator, then a stack overflow will occur.

Solution(s)

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

References

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