CVE-2024-38439

Publication date 16 June 2024

Last updated 12 March 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Netatalk 3.2.0 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.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
netatalk	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 3.1.18~ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 3.1.12~ds-9ubuntu0.22.04.4
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 3.1.12~ds-4ubuntu0.20.04.4
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 2.2.6-1ubuntu0.18.04.2+esm2 Ubuntu Pro
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.2.5-1ubuntu0.2+esm2 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-7347-1
Netatalk vulnerabilities
12 March 2025