CVE-2023-42464

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductNetatalk
PublishedSep 20, 2023
First seenSep 20, 2023

How to fix

Update
  • netatalk netatalk3.1.17 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
netatalk netatalk3.1 ≤ v < 3.1.173.1.17
debian debian_linux10.0, 11.0—

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