High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 1, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-28366
CVE-2023-28366
Description
The broker in Eclipse Mosquitto 1.3.2 through 2.x before 2.0.16 has a memory leak that can be abused remotely when a client sends many QoS 2 messages with duplicate message IDs, and fails to respond to PUBREC commands. This occurs because of mishandling of EAGAIN from the libc send function.
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References
7- github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/commit/6113eac95a9df634fbc858be542c4a0456bfe7b9nvdPatch
- www.compass-security.com/fileadmin/Research/Advisories/2023_02_CSNC-2023-001_Eclipse_Mosquitto_Memory_Leak.txtnvdThird Party Advisory
- github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/compare/v2.0.15...v2.0.16nvdRelease Notes
- mosquitto.org/blog/2023/08/version-2-0-16-released/nvdRelease Notes
- lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/KJ2FMBGVVQEQWTTQB7YLKTAHMX2UM66X/nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-09nvd
- www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5511nvd
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