From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@korsgaard.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/mosquitto: security bump to version 1.6.6
Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:42:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87muf11ui3.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f4b936c7-02ed-5d4b-f710-1aa45da0843a@railnova.eu> (Titouan Christophe's message of "Wed, 18 Sep 2019 17:02:02 +0200")
>>>>> "Titouan" == Titouan Christophe <titouan.christophe@railnova.eu> writes:
> Hello Peter and all,
> On 9/18/19 4:38 PM, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>> Fixes a security issue. From the annoncement:
>>
>> A vulnerability exists in Mosquitto versions 1.5 to 1.6.5 inclusive.
>>
>> If a client sends a SUBSCRIBE packet containing a topic that consists of
>> approximately 65400 or more '/' characters, i.e. the topic hierarchy
>> separator, then a stack overflow will occur.
>>
>> The issue is fixed in Mosquitto 1.6.6 and 1.5.9. Patches for older versions
>> are available at https://mosquitto.org/files/cve/2019-hier
>>
>> The fix addresses the problem by restricting the allowed number of topic
>> hierarchy levels to 200. An alternative fix is to increase the size of the
>> stack by a small amount.
>>
>> https://mosquitto.org/blog/2019/09/version-1-6-6-released/
>>
>> Also notice that 1.6.5 silently fixed a security issue:
>>
>> CVE-2019-11778
>>
>> A vulnerability exists in Mosquitto version 1.6 to 1.6.4 inclusive, known as CVE-2019-11778
>>
>> If an MQTT v5 client connects to Mosquitto, sets a last will and testament,
>> sets a will delay interval, sets a session expiry interval, and the will
>> delay interval is set longer than the session expiry interval, then a use
>> after free error occurs, which has the potential to cause a crash in some
>> situations.
>>
> Do you also intend to backport this into 2019.02 ?
Yes, but 2019.02.x uses 1.5.8, so there it makes more sense to move to
1.5.9.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-18 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-18 14:38 [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/mosquitto: security bump to version 1.6.6 Peter Korsgaard
2019-09-18 15:02 ` Titouan Christophe
2019-09-18 15:42 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2019-09-18 15:51 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2019-09-26 9:29 ` Peter Korsgaard
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