| Name | CVE-2017-7651 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1334-1, DLA-1409-1, DSA-4325-1 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| mosquitto (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1.3.4-2+deb8u4 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 1.4.10-3+deb9u5 | fixed | |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1.5.7-1+deb10u1 | fixed | |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2.0.11-1+deb11u1 | fixed | |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 2.0.11-1.2+deb12u1 | fixed | |
| sid, trixie | 2.0.20-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| mosquitto | source | wheezy | 0.15-2+deb7u3 | DLA-1334-1 | ||
| mosquitto | source | jessie | 1.3.4-2+deb8u2 | DLA-1409-1 | ||
| mosquitto | source | stretch | 1.4.10-3+deb9u2 | DSA-4325-1 | ||
| mosquitto | source | (unstable) | 1.4.15-1 |
Patches: https://mosquitto.org/files/cve/2017-7651
http://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/