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. Reference: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=551160
Created mosquitto tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: epel-7 [bug 1753848] Affects: fedora-all [bug 1753847]
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