[Bug 1706900] Re: CVE-2016-9877 RabbitMQ authentication vulnerability

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

** CVE added: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2016-9877

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Title:
  CVE-2016-9877 RabbitMQ authentication vulnerability

Status in RabbitMQ:
  Fix Released
Status in rabbitmq-server package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2016-9877

    "MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport) connection authentication with a
  username/password pair succeeds if an existing username is provided
  but the password is omitted from the connection request. Connections
  that use TLS with a client-provided certificate are not affected."

  Affects RabbitMQ "3.x versions prior to 3.5.8"

  Ubuntu's Xenial repos are currently offering 3.5.7-1ubuntu0.16.04.1,
  and according to its changelog, Pivotal's fix for CVE-2016-9877 has
  not been included.

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