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Ubuntu: (CVE-2024-8376): mosquitto vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Oct 11, 2024
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

In Eclipse Mosquitto up to version 2.0.18a, an attacker can achieve memory leaking, segmentation fault or heap-use-after-free by sending specific sequences of "CONNECT", "DISCONNECT", "SUBSCRIBE", "UNSUBSCRIBE" and "PUBLISH" packets.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package

References

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