Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-42464 - Type Confusion vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/486
- https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5503
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00031.html
- https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/CVE-2023-42464.php
- https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/3.1/htmldocs/afpd.8.html