🛡️ CVE-2023-42464
🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-843 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A Type Confusion vulnerability was found in the Spotlight RPC functions in afpd in Netatalk 3.1.x before 3.1.17. When parsing Spotlight RPC packets, one encoded data structure is a key-value style dictionary where the keys are character strings, and the values can be any of the supported types in the underlying protocol. Due to a lack of type checking in callers of the dalloc_value_for_key() function, which returns the object associated with a key, a malicious actor may be able to fully control the value of the pointer and theoretically achieve Remote Code Execution on the host. This issue is similar to CVE-2023-34967.

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-843
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-09-20
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux — —
netatalk 3.1 3.1.17

References

Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/486
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/486

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