Bug 1588903 (CVE-2017-7654)

Summary:	CVE-2017-7654 mosquitto: Memory leak allows unauthenticated clients to send crafted CONNECT packets causing a denial of service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Sam Fowler 2018-06-08 04:18:51 UTC

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.15 and earlier, a Memory Leak vulnerability was found within the Mosquitto Broker. Unauthenticated clients can send crafted CONNECT packets which could cause a denial of service in the Mosquitto Broker.


Upstream Bug:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=532113

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-06-08 04:19:12 UTC

Created mosquitto tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1588904]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1588905]