Vulnerability CVE-2023-2905


Published: 2023-08-09

Description:
Due to a failure in validating the length of a provided MQTT_CMD_PUBLISH parsed message with a variable length header, Cesanta Mongoose, an embeddable web server, version 7.10 is susceptible to a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the default configuration. Version 7.9 and prior does not appear to be vulnerable. This issue is resolved in version 7.11.

 References:
https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/pull/2274
https://takeonme.org/cves/CVE-2023-2905.html
https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose/releases/tag/7.11

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