CVE-2024-38439

9.8 CRITICAL

Published: June 16, 2024 Modified: November 03, 2025

Description

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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/90d91a9ac9a7d6132ab7620d31c8c23400949206/etc/uams/uams_pam.c#L316

Source: cve@mitre.org

Product

https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/1096

Source: cve@mitre.org

Broken Link Not Applicable

https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/security/advisories/GHSA-8r68-857c-4rqc

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit Vendor Advisory

https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2024-38439

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/90d91a9ac9a7d6132ab7620d31c8c23400949206/etc/uams/uams_pam.c#L316