Bug 1642608 (CVE-2018-12543) - CVE-2018-12543 mosquitto: DoS due to a reachable assertion in topic field
Summary: CVE-2018-12543 mosquitto: DoS due to a reachable assertion in topic field
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-12543
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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low
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1642609 1642610
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-10-24 19:48 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2019-09-29 15:01 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-10-26 10:30:55 UTC

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Description Laura Pardo 2018-10-24 19:48:01 UTC 
A flaw was found in mosquitto. A reachable assertion when a message is sent to Mosquitto with a topic that begins with $, but is not $SYS. This results in an application crash.


References:
https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/blob/master/ChangeLog.txt
Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-10-24 19:48:37 UTC 
Created mosquitto tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1642610]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1642609]
Comment 2 Fabian Affolter 2018-10-26 10:30:55 UTC 
Was already addressed.
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