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.
Weakness
The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mosquitto | Eclipse | 1.0 (including) | 1.4.15 (including) |
| Mosquitto | Ubuntu | bionic | * |
| Mosquitto | Ubuntu | cosmic | * |
| Mosquitto | Ubuntu | esm-apps/bionic | * |
| Mosquitto | Ubuntu | esm-apps/xenial | * |
| Mosquitto | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Mosquitto | Ubuntu | xenial | * |
Potential Mitigations
References
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=533775
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00035.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00022.html
- https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=533775
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00035.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00022.html