Mageia 2024-0259 Security Advisory on Netatalk Vulnerabilities and Fixes
Summary
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. (CVE-2024-38439) Netatalk before 3.2.1 has an off-by-one error, and resultant heap-based buffer overflow and segmentation violation, because of incorrectly using FPLoginExt in BN_bin2bn in etc/uams/uams_dhx_pam.c. The original issue 1097 report stated: 'The latest version of Netatalk (v3.2.0) contains a security vulnerability. This vulnerability arises due to a lack of validation for the length field after parsing user-provided data, leading to an out-of-bounds heap write of one byte (\0). Under specific configurations, this can result in reading metadata of the next heap block, potentially causing a Denial of Service (DoS) under certain heap layouts or with ASAN enabled. ... The vulnerability is located in the FPLoginExt operation of Netatalk, in the BN_bin2bn function found in /etc/uams/uams_dhx_pam.c ... i...
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33381
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UM3M423DHSUBERDIYCFHYY6XF2CAAMA2/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-38439
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-38440
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-38441
Resolution
MGASA-2024-0259 - Updated netatalk packages fix security vulnerabilities
SRPMS
- 9/core/netatalk-3.1.14-2.4.mga9