In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, if a Mosquitto instance is set running with a configuration file, then sending a HUP signal to server triggers the configuration to be reloaded from disk. If there are lots of clients connected so that there are no more file descriptors/sockets available (default limit typically 1024 file descriptors on Linux), then opening the configuration file will fail.

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

  - In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, a user can shutdown the Mosquitto server simply by filling the RAM memory
    with a lot of connections with large payload. This can be done without authentications if occur in
    connection phase of MQTT protocol. (CVE-2017-7651)

  - In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, if a Mosquitto instance is set running with a configuration file, then
    sending a HUP signal to server triggers the configuration to be reloaded from disk. If there are lots of
    clients connected so that there are no more file descriptors/sockets available (default limit typically
    1024 file descriptors on Linux), then opening the configuration file will fail. (CVE-2017-7652)

  - In Mosquitto through 1.4.12, mosquitto.db (aka the persistence file) is world readable, which allows local
    users to obtain sensitive MQTT topic information. (CVE-2017-9868)

Fix CVE-2017-7651 (rhbz#1551755, rhbz#1551754)

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It was discovered that mosquitto, an MQTT broker, was vulnerable to remote denial-of-service attacks that could be mounted using various vectors.

CVE-2017-7651 fix to avoid extraordinary memory consumption by crafted CONNECT packet from unauthenticated client

CVE-2017-7652 in case all sockets/file descriptors are exhausted, this is a fix to avoid default config values after reloading configuration by SIGHUP signal

For Debian 8 'Jessie', these problems have been fixed in version 1.3.4-2+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your mosquitto packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

CVE-2017-7651 A crafted CONNECT packet from an unauthenticated client could result in extraordinary memory consumption.

CVE-2017-7652 In case all sockets/file descriptors are exhausted, a SIGHUP signal to reload the configuration could result in default config values (especially bad security settings)

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 0.15-2+deb7u3.

We recommend that you upgrade your mosquitto packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
424199	Alpine: multiple mosquitto packages: security update to 1.4.15-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
424199	Alpine: multiple mosquitto packages: security update to 1.4.15-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	high
120818	Fedora 28 : mosquitto (2018-d305559481)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
118408	Debian DSA-4325-1 : mosquitto - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
110818	Debian DLA-1409-1 : mosquitto security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
108792	Fedora 26 : mosquitto (2018-e03a17fa61)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
108791	Fedora 27 : mosquitto (2018-ad652798b8)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
108768	Debian DLA-1334-1 : mosquitto security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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