FreeBSD : py-nicotine-plus -- Denial of service vulnerability (e87a9326-dd35-49fc-b20b-f57cbebaae87)

high Nessus Plugin ID 174293

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The version of FreeBSD installed on the remote host is prior to tested version. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the e87a9326-dd35-49fc-b20b-f57cbebaae87 advisory.

- Denial of service (DoS) vulnerability in Nicotine+ 3.0.3 and later 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.
(CVE-2021-45848)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 174293

File Name: freebsd_pkg_e87a9326dd3549fcb20bf57cbebaae87.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks

Published: 4/14/2023

Updated: 4/19/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-45848

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py310-nicotine-plus, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py311-nicotine-plus, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py37-nicotine-plus, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py38-nicotine-plus, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:py39-nicotine-plus, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/9/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/15/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-45848

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