netatalk — security advisory

{
  "id": "182f907ba2a29cb0868c5e540057b86373c9b0d8d9afaa2c25f624600f9cf2a0",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42464",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42464",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42464",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "netatalk",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
          {
            "value": "3.1.17~ds-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": []
      },
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "netatalk",
          "evidence": "/affected/1/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
          {
            "value": "3.1.17~ds-1",
            "evidence": "/affected/1/ranges"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": []
      }
    ],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42464",
      "aliases": [
        "DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42464"
      ],
      "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": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "3.1.17~ds-1"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "netatalk",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/netatalk?arch=source&distro=trixie",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:13"
          },
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42464.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        },
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "3.1.17~ds-1"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "netatalk",
            "purl": "pkg:deb/debian/netatalk?arch=source&distro=forky",
            "ecosystem": "Debian:14"
          },
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2023-42464.json"
          },
          "ecosystem_specific": {
            "urgency": "not yet assigned"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-26T18:02:34.202454259Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
        "CVE-2023-42464"
      ],
      "references": [
        "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-42464"
      ]
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2023-42464",
        "evidence": "/upstream"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 456268,
  "published_at": "2023-09-20T15:15:11.817+00:00"
}