CVE-2024-38440

netatalk: Netatalk before 3.2.1 has an off-by-one error, and resultant heap-based buffer overflow and segmentation violation, b...

CVE-2024-38440 is fixed in netatalk on 1 platform, first by netatalk 2.2.6-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm2, released June 16, 2024. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.5
high
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0088
59th percentile

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.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
netatalk · Debian 13.5 (trixie) 3.1.18~ds-2 DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38440 Jun 16, 2024
netatalk · Debian 14 3.1.18~ds-2 DEBIAN-CVE-2024-38440 Jun 16, 2024
netatalk · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 2.2.6-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm2 netatalk 2.2.6-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm2 Jun 16, 2024
netatalk · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 3.1.12~ds-4ubuntu0.20.04.4 netatalk 3.1.12~ds-4ubuntu0.20.04.4 Jun 16, 2024
netatalk · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 3.1.12~ds-9ubuntu0.22.04.4 netatalk 3.1.12~ds-9ubuntu0.22.04.4 Jun 16, 2024
netatalk · Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) 3.1.18~ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 netatalk 3.1.18~ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Jun 16, 2024

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