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USN-6492-1: Mosquitto vulnerabilities

Publication date

21 November 2023

Overview

Several security issues were fixed in Mosquitto.

Releases

Packages

  • mosquitto - MQTT version 3.1/3.1.1 compatible message broker

Details

Kathrin Kleinhammer discovered that Mosquitto incorrectly handled certain
inputs. If a user or an automated system were provided with a specially crafted
input, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-34431)

Zhanxiang Song discovered that Mosquitto incorrectly handled certain inputs. If
a user or an automated system were provided with a specially crafted input, a
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause an authorisation bypass.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2021-34434)

Zhanxiang Song, Bin Yuan, DeQing Zou, and Hai Jin discovered that Mosquitto
incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were
provided with a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause a...

Kathrin Kleinhammer discovered that Mosquitto incorrectly handled certain
inputs. If a user or an automated system were provided with a specially crafted
input, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of
service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-34431)

Zhanxiang Song discovered that Mosquitto incorrectly handled certain inputs. If
a user or an automated system were provided with a specially crafted input, a
remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause an authorisation bypass.
This issue only affected Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04. (CVE-2021-34434)

Zhanxiang Song, Bin Yuan, DeQing Zou, and Hai Jin discovered that Mosquitto
incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user or an automated system were
provided with a specially crafted input, a remote attacker could possibly use
this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04
LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-41039)

Zhengjie Du discovered that Mosquitto incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a
user or an automated system were provided with a specially crafted input file,
a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2023-0809)

It was discovered that Mosquitto incorrectly handled certain inputs. If a user
or an automated system were provided with a specially crafted input, a remote
attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
(CVE-2023-3592)

Mischa Bachmann discovered that Mosquitto incorrectly handled certain inputs.
If a user or an automated system were provided with a specially crafted input,
a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 23.04.
(CVE-2023-28366)

Update instructions

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release Package Version
23.04 lunar mosquitto –  2.0.11-1.2ubuntu0.1
22.04 jammy mosquitto –  2.0.11-1ubuntu1.1
20.04 focal mosquitto –  1.6.9-1ubuntu0.1~esm1  

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