CVE-2024-38440

Published Jun 16, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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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
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Metrics ssvc

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

Type Values Removed Values Added
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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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Nov 3, 2025, 9:55 PM
Reserved
Jun 16, 2024, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 16, 2024, 1:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:40 AM