HIGH 7.5
PYSEC-2026-687
Nicotine+ DoS on Null Character in Download Request
Details
Denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Nicotine+ starting with version 3.0.3 and prior to version 3.2.1 allows a user with a modified Soulseek client to crash Nicotine+ by sending a file download request with a file path containing a null character.
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Affected packages
PyPI / nicotine-plus
Introduced in:
3.0.3 Fixed in: 3.2.1 Fix
pip install --upgrade 'nicotine-plus>=3.2.1' References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-45848 [ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/issues/1777 [WEB]
- https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus/commit/0e3e2fac27a518f0a84330f1ddf1193424522045 [WEB]
- https://github.com/nicotine-plus/nicotine-plus [PACKAGE]
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HWYV53KERFH2EC4XI2IVVQFTV75E5XM6 [WEB]
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202210-20 [WEB]
- https://pypi.org/project/nicotine-plus [PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4v2-r99v-wjc2 [ADVISORY]