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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM : Mosquitto vulnerability (USN-4823-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 183609

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Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-4823-1 advisory.

 - In Eclipse Mosquitto version from 1.0 to 1.4.15, a Null Dereference vulnerability was found in the Mosquitto library which could lead to crashes for those applications using the library. (CVE-2017-7655)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4823-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 183609

File Name: ubuntu_USN-4823-1.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/20/2023

Updated: 10/20/2023

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7655

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:-:esm, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:esm, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquitto-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquitto1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquittopp-dev, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:libmosquittopp1, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mosquitto, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mosquitto-clients, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:mosquitto-dev

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7655

USN: 4823-1