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Mageia 7 & 8: 2021-0349 Moderate: Mosquitto Memory Leak Issue

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Calendar Grey July 12, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
An upgrade for Mosquitto addresses a memory leak tied to specially crafted MQTT v5 CONNECT requests, enhancing system security against exploits.
Updated mosquitto packages fix security vulnerability: If an authenticated client connected with MQTT v5 sent a crafted CONNECT message to the broker a memory leak would occur

Summary

Updated mosquitto packages fix security vulnerability: If an authenticated client connected with MQTT v5 sent a crafted CONNECT message to the broker a memory leak would occur.

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29024

- https://mosquitto.org/blog/2021/06/version-2-0-11-released/

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate memory leak mageia mosquitto

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/mosquitto-2.0.11-1.mga8

- 7/core/mosquitto-1.6.15-1.mga7

- 7/core/uthash-2.1.0-1.mga7

Publication date: 12 Jul 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0349.html
Type: security

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate memory leak mageia mosquitto

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