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Gentoo: GLSA-202210-20 Low Severity: Nicotine+ Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey October 30, 2022
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Confronting a DDoS vulnerability in Nicotine+ on Gentoo, providing necessary patch recommendations for user implementations.
A vulnerability has been found in Nicotine+ which could result in denial of service.

Summary

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo low severity nicotine+

Resolution

All Nicotine+ users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-p2p/nicotine+-3.2.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2021-45848 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45848

Availability

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

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Severity: Low
Title: Nicotine+: Denial of Service
Date: October 31, 2022
Bugs: #835374
ID: 202210-20

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service gentoo low severity nicotine+

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.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-p2p/nicotine+ < 3.2.1 >= 3.2.1

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.

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