Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.cosmic:def:20177653000
Revision Date:2018-06-05Version:1
Title:CVE-2017-7653 on Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) - medium.
Description: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 of service for the clients.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-7653
Platform(s):Ubuntu 18.10
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic) is installed.
  • AND The 'mosquitto' package in cosmic is affected and needs fixing.
  • BACK