Improper Input Validation Affecting mosquitto package, versions <1.5.4-1
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- published5 Jun 2018
- disclosed5 Jun 2018
Introduced: 5 Jun 2018
CVE-2017-7653 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:unstable mosquitto to version 1.5.4-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mosquitto package and not the mosquitto package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.
The Eclipse Mosquitto broker up to version 1.4.15 does not reject strings that are not valid UTF-8. A malicious client could cause other clients that do reject invalid UTF-8 strings to disconnect themselves from the broker by sending a topic string which is not valid UTF-8, and so cause a denial of service for the clients.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7653
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=532113
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00036.html
- http://docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/disallowed-chars/v1.0/disallowed-chars-v1.0.pdf
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-7653
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4023-1/