glsa-202210-20.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202210-20">
    <title>Nicotine+: Denial of Service</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in Nicotine+ which could result in denial of service.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">nicotine+</product>
    <announced>2022-10-31</announced>
    <revised count="1">2022-10-31</revised>
    <bug>835374</bug>
    <access>remote</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="net-p2p/nicotine+" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">3.2.1</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">3.2.1</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>Nicotine+ is a fork of nicotine, a Soulseek client in Python.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>Nicotine+ does not sufficiently validate file path in download requests.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="low">
        <p>A file path in a download request which contains a null character will cause a crash of Nicotine+.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All Nicotine+ users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-p2p/nicotine+-3.2.1"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45848">CVE-2021-45848</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2022-10-31T01:14:04.156383Z">ajak</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2022-10-31T01:14:04.161504Z">ajak</metadata>
</glsa>