CVE-2017-7652 Affecting mosquitto package, versions <0.15-2+deb7u3ubuntu0.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-MOSQUITTO-284215
  • published25 Apr 2018
  • disclosed25 Apr 2018

Introduced: 25 Apr 2018

CVE-2017-7652  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:14.04 mosquitto to version 0.15-2+deb7u3ubuntu0.1 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:14.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, if a Mosquitto instance is set running with a configuration file, then sending a HUP signal to server triggers the configuration to be reloaded from disk. If there are lots of clients connected so that there are no more file descriptors/sockets available (default limit typically 1024 file descriptors on Linux), then opening the configuration file will fail.