CVE-2023-42464

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.

• CWE-843

• https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/486Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2023-42464
• https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/Product
• https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/3.1/htmldocs/afpd.8.htmlProduct
• https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/CVE-2023-42464.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5503Third Party Advisory
• https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/486Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00031.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2023-42464
• https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/Product
• https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/3.1/htmldocs/afpd.8.htmlProduct
• https://netatalk.sourceforge.io/CVE-2023-42464.phpPatch, Vendor Advisory
• https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5503Third Party Advisory

Published

Sep 20, 2023

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified