CVE-2024-38439

Netatalk before 3.2.1 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. 2.4.1 and 3.1.19 are also fixed versions.

CVSS v3 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/90d91a9ac9a7d6132ab7620d31c8c23400949206/etc/uams/uams_pam.c#L316	Product
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/1096	Broken Link Not Applicable
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/security/advisories/GHSA-8r68-857c-4rqc	Exploit Vendor Advisory
https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2024-38439	Patch Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/90d91a9ac9a7d6132ab7620d31c8c23400949206/etc/uams/uams_pam.c#L316	Product
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/1096	Broken Link Not Applicable
https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/security/advisories/GHSA-8r68-857c-4rqc	Exploit Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00026.html
https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2024-38439	Patch Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:netatalk:netatalk::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:netatalk:netatalk::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:netatalk:netatalk:3.2.0:::::::*

History

03 Nov 2025, 22:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		() https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00026.html -

Information

Published : 2024-06-16 13:15

Updated : 2025-11-03 22:17

NVD link : CVE-2024-38439

Mitre link : CVE-2024-38439

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2024-38439

JSON object : View

Products Affected

netatalk

netatalk

CWE

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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