UBUNTU-CVE-2023-42464 (CVE-2023-42464)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2023-09-16 16:00 – Updated: 2026-03-02 10:57 – Source website
VLAI
Details

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.

Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "modified": "2026-03-02T10:57:26Z",
  "published": "2023-09-16T16:00:00Z",
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