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Debian 7 Wheezy: DLA-962-1 High Risk: OpenSSL Security Flaw Detected

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Calendar Grey May 30, 2017
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Update mosquitto to mitigate CVE-2017-7650 and enhance security by refining ACL configurations to ensure proper access controls.
CVE-2017-7650: Pattern based ACLs can be bypassed by clients that set their username/client id to ‘#’ or ‘+’
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Summary

The vulnerability only comes into effect where pattern based ACLs are in use,
or potentially where third party plugins are in use.

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", these problems have been fixed in version
0.15-2+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mosquitto packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

thanks,

Gianfranco


Package: mosquitto
Version: 0.15-2+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2017-7650
Debian Bug:

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