Critical
Security advisory
Netatalk before 3.2.1 has an off-by-one error and resultant heap-based buffer overflow because of setting ibuf[len] to '\0' in FPMapName in afp_mapname in etc/afpd/directory.c. 2.4.1 and 3.1.19 are also fixed versions.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-38441
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 10:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Netatalk before 3.2.1 has an off-by-one error and resultant heap-based buffer overflow because of setting ibuf[len] to '\0' in FPMapName in afp_mapname in etc/afpd/directory.c. 2.4.1 and 3.1.19 are also fixed versions.
osv:CVE-2024-38441
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38441",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "CVE-2024-38441",
"summary": "Netatalk before 3.2.1 has an off-by-one error and resultant heap-based buffer overflow because of setting ibuf[len] to '\\0' in FPMapName in afp_mapname in etc/afpd/directory.c. 2.4.1 and 3.1.19 are also fixed versions.",
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"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": {
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}
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"modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:28.105012557Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/90d91a9ac9a7d6132ab7620d31c8c23400949206/etc/afpd/directory.c#L2333",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00026.html",
"https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2024-38441",
"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38441.json",
"https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/security/advisories/GHSA-mj6v-cr68-mj9q",
"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38441",
"https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/1098"
],
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 494636,
"published_at": "2024-06-16T00:00:00+00:00"
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