CVE-2017-7652 | BDVDB-2026-100104 Detail
The Eclipse FoundationEclipse Mosquitto
Description#
In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.4.14, if a Mosquitto instance is set running with a configuration file, then sending a HUP signal to server triggers the configuration to be reloaded from disk. If there are lots of clients connected so that there are no more file descriptors/sockets available (default limit typically 1024 file descriptors on Linux), then opening the configuration file will fail.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
- CWE-789 Uncontrolled Memory Allocation
References#
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/03/msg00037.html
- https://mosquitto.org/blog/2018/02/security-advisory-cve-2017-7651-cve-2017-7652/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/06/msg00016.html
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=530102
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4325
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.