ZeroMQ libzmq remote code execution

How it was found

Bug report and exploit: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/issues/3351 Fix by me: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/pull/3353

My motive for full disclosure is as follows:

Is it true that it is not safe to use ZeroMQ over the internet because it will crash?

Earlier versions of the ZeroMQ library (before 2.1) were not very resilient against "fuzzing" attacks. A malformed packet or garbage data could cause an old version of the library to assert and exit. Since the release of 2.1, all reported cases of assertions caused by bad data have been fixed. If your testing uncovers a problem in this area, please file a bug report.

Source: http://zeromq.org/area:faq

The issue reporting page (http://zeromq.org/docs:issue-tracking) instructs to open a Github issue, with no special procedure for security issues, so I went ahead and did just that.

libzmq appears to be widely used and has wrapper implementations for Go, Python, Java, Node.js, etc.

Impact

Running arbitrary code on the victim's system.