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CVE-2017-7654 (GCVE-0-2017-7654)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-06-05 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:12
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-401 - Improper Release of Memory Before Removing Last Reference
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=533493 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4023-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Mosquitto Affected: unspecified , ≤ 1.4.15 (custom)
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Date Public
2018-06-05 00:00
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