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Debian Security Advisory

DLA-1409-1 mosquitto -- LTS security update

Date Reported:

29 Jun 2018

Affected Packages:

mosquitto

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2017-7651, CVE-2017-7652, CVE-2017-7652.

More information:

• CVE-2017-7651

  fix to avoid extraordinary memory consumption by crafted CONNECT packet from unauthenticated client

• CVE-2017-7652

  in case all sockets/file descriptors are exhausted, this is a fix to avoid default config values after reloading configuration by SIGHUP signal

For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.4-2+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your mosquitto packages.

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