Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 20, 2023· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2023-42464
CVE-2023-42464
Description
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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Affected products
7- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/suse/netatalk&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/netatalk&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Workstation%20Extension%2012%20SP5
< 3.1.0-3.19.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.0-3.19.1
- (no CPE)range: < 3.1.0-3.19.1
Patches
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References
7- github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/486nvdIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
- netatalk.sourceforge.io/CVE-2023-42464.phpnvdPatchVendor Advisory
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00031.htmlnvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5503nvdThird Party Advisory
- netatalk.sourceforge.ionvdProduct
- netatalk.sourceforge.io/3.1/htmldocs/afpd.8.htmlnvdProduct
- netatalk.io/security/CVE-2023-42464nvd
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