Out-of-bounds Write Affecting swupdate package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.01% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-SWUPDATE-16722580
  • published17 May 2026
  • disclosed9 Aug 2023

Introduced: 9 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-2905  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:11 swupdate.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream swupdate package and not the swupdate package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Due to a failure in validating the length of a provided MQTT_CMD_PUBLISH parsed message with a variable length header, Cesanta Mongoose, an embeddable web server, version 7.10 is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the default configuration. Version 7.9 and prior does not appear to be vulnerable. This issue is resolved in version 7.11.

CVSS Base Scores

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