Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201810-1

Severity: Medium
Date : 2018-10-01
CVE-ID : CVE-2018-12543
Package : mosquitto
Type : denial of service
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-772

Summary

The package mosquitto before version 1.5.3-1 is vulnerable to denial of
service.

Resolution

Upgrade to 1.5.3-1.

pacman -Syu “mosquitto>=1.5.3-1”

The problem has been fixed upstream in version 1.5.3.

Workaround

None.

Description

If a message is sent to Mosquitto before 1.5.3 with a topic that begins
with $, but is not $SYS, then an assert that should be unreachable is
triggered and Mosquitto will exit.

Impact

A remote attacker is able to cause a denial of service by sending a
specially crafted mqtt message.

References

https://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/09/security-advisory-cve-2018-12543/
https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/commit/f7474d348225bf086f6b9c69b18d6413aa6ffca6
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2018-12543