DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11779

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-11779
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11779.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11779
Upstream
Published
2019-09-19T14:15:10.573Z
Modified
2025-11-19T01:19:10.429574Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

In Eclipse Mosquitto 1.5.0 to 1.6.5 inclusive, if a malicious MQTT 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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / mosquitto

Package

Name
mosquitto
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mosquitto?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.6.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11779.json"

Debian:12 / mosquitto

Package

Name
mosquitto
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mosquitto?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.6.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11779.json"

Debian:13 / mosquitto

Package

Name
mosquitto
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mosquitto?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.6.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11779.json"

Debian:14 / mosquitto

Package

Name
mosquitto
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mosquitto?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.6.6-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2019-11779.json"