Security
Security
A vulnerability has been found in Nicotine+ which could result in denial of service.
| Package | net-p2p/nicotine+ on all architectures |
|---|---|
| Affected versions | < 3.2.1 |
| Unaffected versions | >= 3.2.1 |
Nicotine+ is a fork of nicotine, a Soulseek client in Python.
Nicotine+ does not sufficiently validate file path in download requests.
A file path in a download request which contains a null character will cause a crash of Nicotine+.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All Nicotine+ users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-p2p/nicotine+-3.2.1"
Release date
October 31, 2022
Latest revision
October 31, 2022: 1
Severity
low
Exploitable
remote
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