Description
Netatalk before 3.2.1 has an off-by-one error, and resultant heap-based buffer overflow and segmentation violation, because of incorrectly using FPLoginExt in BN_bin2bn in etc/uams/uams_dhx_pam.c. The original issue 1097 report stated: 'The latest version of Netatalk (v3.2.0) contains a security vulnerability. This vulnerability arises due to a lack of validation for the length field after parsing user-provided data, leading to an out-of-bounds heap write of one byte (\0). Under specific configurations, this can result in reading metadata of the next heap block, potentially causing a Denial of Service (DoS) under certain heap layouts or with ASAN enabled. ... The vulnerability is located in the FPLoginExt operation of Netatalk, in the BN_bin2bn function found in /etc/uams/uams_dhx_pam.c ... if (!(bn = BN_bin2bn((unsigned char *)ibuf, KEYSIZE, NULL))) ... threads ... [#0] Id 1, Name: "afpd", stopped 0x7ffff4304e58 in ?? (), reason: SIGSEGV ... [#0] 0x7ffff4304e58 mov BYTE PTR [r14+0x8], 0x0 ... mov rdx, QWORD PTR [rsp+0x18] ... afp_login_ext(obj=<optimized out>, ibuf=0x62d000010424 "", ibuflen=0xffffffffffff0015, rbuf=<optimized out>, rbuflen=<optimized out>) ... afp_over_dsi(obj=0x5555556154c0 <obj>).' 2.4.1 and 3.1.19 are also fixed versions.
Published: 2024-06-16
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-3968-1 netatalk security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7347-1 Netatalk vulnerabilities
History

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 22:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 01 May 2025 20:00:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Netatalk
Netatalk netatalk
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:netatalk:netatalk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:netatalk:netatalk:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Netatalk
Netatalk netatalk

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Netatalk Netatalk
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-03T21:55:37.999Z

Reserved: 2024-06-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-38440

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Updated: 2025-11-03T21:55:37.999Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-06-16T13:15:53.147

Modified: 2025-11-03T22:17:01.293

Link: CVE-2024-38440

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