| Name | CVE-2023-0809 |
| Description | In Mosquitto before 2.0.16, excessive memory is allocated based on malicious initial packets that are not CONNECT packets. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-5511-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
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.
Notes
[buster] - mosquitto <not-affected> (The vulnerable code was introduced later)
https://mosquitto.org/blog/2023/08/version-2-0-16-released/
Fixed by https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/commit/a3c680fbb00a0019573fb84c29332e845e6efcad
[stretch] - mosquitto <not-affected> (The vulnerable code was introduced later)
[jessie] - mosquitto <not-affected> (The vulnerable code was introduced later)