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Debian LTS Advisory ([SECURITY] [DLA 1334-1] mosquitto security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Medium
Family
Family
Debian Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
6.0
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
6 years ago
Modified
Modified
5 years ago
Summary
CVE-2017-7651 A crafted CONNECT packet from an unauthenticated client could result in extraordinary memory consumption. CVE-2017-7652 In case all sockets/file descriptors are exhausted, a SIGHUP signal to reload the configuration could result in default config values (especially bad security settings)
Affected Software
Affected Software
mosquitto on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.15-2+deb7u3. We recommend that you upgrade your mosquitto packages.