SB2025071426 - Fedora EPEL 9 update for mosquitto

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SB2025071426 - Fedora EPEL 9 update for mosquitto

Published: July 14, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025071426
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-8376)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due memory leak. A remote attacker can send a specific sequences of "CONNECT", "DISCONNECT", "SUBSCRIBE", "UNSUBSCRIBE" and "PUBLISH" packets to force the application to leak memory and perform denial of service attack.


2) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-10525)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when handling SUBACK packets with no reason codes. A remote attacker can send specially crafted SUBACK packets to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References