GLSA 202210-20: Nicotine+: Denial of Service

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Severity:	low
Title:	Nicotine+: Denial of Service
Date:	10/31/2022
Bugs:	#835374
ID:	202210-20

Synopsis

A vulnerability has been found in Nicotine+ which could result in denial of service.

Background

Nicotine+ is a fork of nicotine, a Soulseek client in Python.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-p2p/nicotine+	< 3.2.1	>= 3.2.1	All supported architectures

Description

Nicotine+ does not sufficiently validate file path in download requests.

Impact

A file path in a download request which contains a null character will cause a crash of Nicotine+.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Nicotine+ users should upgrade to the latest version:

          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-p2p/nicotine+-3.2.1"

References

CVE-2021-45848

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202210-20.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.