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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-68911 EUVD-2026-88978

Nicotine+: Decompression of peer messages can exhaust available memory

Published Sep 29, 2026 · Updated Sep 29, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Nicotine+ is a graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network. Prior to version 3.3.11, a modified remote client can send zlib-compressed peer messages containing a decompression bomb, exhausting available memory of the recipient's operating system. This issue has been patched in version 3.3.11.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
nicotine-plus nicotine-plus < 3.3.11 —

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