High
Security advisory
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in NanoMQ 0.17.2. The vulnerability can be triggered by calling the function nmq_subinfo_decode() in the file mqtt_parser.c. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service attack.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2023-33659
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 4 Nov 2026, 04:35 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in NanoMQ 0.17.2. The vulnerability can be triggered by calling the function nmq_subinfo_decode() in the file mqtt_parser.c. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service attack.
osv:CVE-2023-33659
Complete source record
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