CVE-2023-42464
criticalpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.021 · 82 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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references (24)
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- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2023-42464/cnnvd
- https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/commit/a0ee3c246ee9e082436192290610a4d812fc0b7fPatchcnnvd
- https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/486cnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00031.htmlcnnvd
- https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/cnnvd
- https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/2.0/htmldocs/afpd.8.htmlcnnvd
- https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/3.1/htmldocs/afpd.8.htmlcnnvd
- https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/CVE-2023-42464.phpcnnvd
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