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Debian DLA-2793-1 : mosquitto - LTS security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 154627

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The remote Debian 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-2793 advisory.

 - In Eclipse Mosquitto version from 1.0 to 1.4.15, a Null Dereference vulnerability was found in the Mosquitto library which could lead to crashes for those applications using the library. (CVE-2017-7655)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade the mosquitto packages.

For Debian 9 stretch, this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.10-3+deb9u5.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/mosquitto

https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2021/dla-2793

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7655

https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/mosquitto

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 154627

File Name: debian_DLA-2793.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/28/2021

Updated: 10/28/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7655

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmosquittopp1, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mosquitto-clients, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mosquitto-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mosquitto-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmosquittopp-dev, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmosquitto1, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmosquittopp1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:mosquitto, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmosquitto1-dbg, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libmosquitto-dev

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/27/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/27/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7655