Security advisory

{
  "id": "763d3e1f5de52067792bd2b640697b500fce8ca2a50a3ee25a37e0f97662d3a0",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38439",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2024-38439",
    "summary": "Netatalk before 3.2.1 has an off-by-one error and resultant heap-based buffer overflow because of setting ibuf[PASSWDLEN] to '\\0' in FPLoginExt in login in etc/uams/uams_pam.c. 2.4.1 and 3.1.19 are also fixed versions.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-38439",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2024-38439",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2024-38439",
        "GHSA-8r68-857c-4rqc"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/netatalk/netatalk",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "1f9fce6aca3683a8030d23ec2de1aa6051f8ebd7"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "50b4fdda78aa1aec1c6bfe353d73dc6b17850649"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "90d91a9ac9a7d6132ab7620d31c8c23400949206"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "90d91a9ac9a7d6132ab7620d31c8c23400949206"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:netatalk:netatalk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "2.4.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:netatalk:netatalk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.1.19"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:netatalk:netatalk:3.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.2.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "3.2.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "3.2.0",
            "netatalk-2-4-0",
            "netatalk-3-2-0",
            "netatalk-2-3-2",
            "netatalk-2-3-1",
            "netatalk-2-3-0",
            "netatalk-3-1-18",
            "netatalk-3-1-17",
            "netatalk-3-1-16",
            "netatalk-2-2-10",
            "netatalk-2-2-7",
            "netatalk-3-1-15",
            "netatalk-2-2-9",
            "netatalk-2-2-8",
            "netatalk-3-1-14",
            "netatalk-3-1-13",
            "netatalk-3-1-12",
            "netatalk-2-2-6",
            "netatalk-3-1-11",
            "netatalk-3-1-10",
            "netatalk-3-1-9",
            "netatalk-3-1-8",
            "netatalk-3-1-7",
            "netatalk-3-1-6",
            "netatalk-3-1-5",
            "netatalk-3-1-4"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38439.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:26.458845713Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/90d91a9ac9a7d6132ab7620d31c8c23400949206/etc/uams/uams_pam.c#L316",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00026.html",
        "https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2024-38439",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38439.json",
        "https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/security/advisories/GHSA-8r68-857c-4rqc",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38439",
        "https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/1096"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38439.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2024-38439",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 492812,
  "published_at": "2024-06-16T00:00:00+00:00"
}