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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1525-1 mosquitto -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

28 Sep 2018

Affected Packages:

mosquitto

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7653, CVE-2017-7654, CVE-2017-9868.

More information:

• CVE-2017-7653

  As invalid UTF-8 strings are not correctly checked, an attacker could cause a denial of service to other clients by disconnecting them from the broker with special crafted topics.

• CVE-2017-7654

  Due to a memory leak unauthenticated clients can send special crafted CONNECT packets which could cause a denial of service in the broker.

• CVE-2017-9868

  Due to wrong file permissions local users could obtain topic information from the mosquitto database.

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.4-2+deb8u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your mosquitto packages.

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