CVE-2019-11779

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-11779
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-09-19 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:03:00 UTC
DescriptionIn Eclipse Mosquitto 1.5.0 to 1.6.5 inclusive, if a malicious MQTT client sends a SUBSCRIBE packet containing a topic that consists of approximately 65400 or more '/' characters, i.e. the topic hierarchy separator, then a stack overflow will occur.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-674

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Eclipse Mosquitto All All All All
Application Eclipse Mosquitto All All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 29 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 30 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 31 All All All
Application Opensuse Backports Sle 15.0 sp1 All All
Operating System Opensuse Leap 15.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
USN-4137-1: Mosquitto vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 1972-1] mosquitto security update MLIST lists.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4570-1 mosquitto DEBIAN www.debian.org
551160 – (CVE-2019-11779) Mosquitto: CVE request - extremely deep hierarchy causes stack overflow CONFIRM bugs.eclipse.org Vendor Advisory
Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 4570-1] mosquitto security update BUGTRAQ seclists.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 30 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc30 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc29 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 31 Update: mosquitto-1.6.7-1.fc31 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2247-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2206-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
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Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500410 Alpine Linux Security Update for mosquitto
  • 504168 Alpine Linux Security Update for mosquitto
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