SUSE CVE-2017-7653

The Eclipse Mosquitto broker up to version 1.4.15 does not reject strings that are not valid UTF-8. A malicious client could cause other clients that do reject invalid UTF-8 strings to disconnect themselves from the broker by sending a topic string which is not valid UTF-8, and so cause a denial ...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

mosquitto is vulnerable to denial of service DoS attacks. The vulnerability exists due to the lack of checks on invalid UTF-8 characters in the topic strings, causing a broker to disconnect when parsing invalid strings...