UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7651

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7651

    Published: 24 Apr 2018Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-7651

    Summary:

    Details: In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in connection phase of MQTT protocol.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7651, http://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7651

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mosquitto

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+deb7u3ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.15-2+deb7u3ubuntu0.1

    Affected versions

    0.15-2ubuntu1
    0.15-2ubuntu1.1
    0.15-2ubuntu1.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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