Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package mosquitto (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-MOSQUITTO-612818
published18 Sept 2019
disclosed19 Sept 2019

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Introduced: 18 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-11779 (opens in a new tab) CWE-754 (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mosquitto package and not the mosquitto package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.5.0 to 1.6.5 inclusive, if a malicious MQTT client sends a SUBSCRIBE packet containing a topic that consists of approximately 65400 or more '/' characters, i.e. the topic hierarchy separator, then a stack overflow will occur.