CVE-2017-7653

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Summary

CVECVE-2017-7653
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-06-05 20:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-06-20 19:15:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Eclipse Mosquitto broker up to version 1.4.15 does not reject strings that are not valid UTF-8. A malicious client could cause other clients that do reject invalid UTF-8 strings to disconnect themselves from the broker by sending a topic string which is not valid UTF-8, and so cause a denial of service for the clients.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Application Eclipse Mosquitto All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
532113 – (CVE-2017-7653) CVE-2017-7653: Eclipse Mosquitto does not validate topic strings CONFIRM bugs.eclipse.org Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4325-1 mosquitto DEBIAN www.debian.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1525-1] mosquitto security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
docs.oasis-open.org/mqtt/disallowed-chars/v1.0/disallowed-chars-v1.0.pdf MISC docs.oasis-open.org Third Party Advisory
USN-4023-1: Mosquitto vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
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