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Fedora 26 mosquitto: 2017-07-07 critical: Information Leak

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Calendar Grey July 7, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An important patch for mosquitto in Fedora 26 tackles CVE-2017-9868, safeguarding against exposure of confidential information.
Fix CVE-2017-9868 (rhbz#1464946)

Summary

Mosquitto is an open source message broker that implements the MQ Telemetry

Transport protocol version 3.1 and 3.1.1 MQTT provides a lightweight method

of carrying out messaging using a publish/subscribe model. This makes it

suitable for "machine to machine" messaging such as with low power sensors

or mobile devices such as phones, embedded computers or micro-controllers

like the Arduino.

Fix CVE-2017-9868 (rhbz#1464946)

[ 1 ] Bug #1464946 - CVE-2017-9868 mosquitto: World-readable persistence file possibly leaking sensitive information

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1464946

su -c 'dnf upgrade mosquitto' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 1.4.13
Release: 1.fc26
Summary: An Open Source MQTT v3.1/v3.1.1 Broker

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