CVE-2024-38441

Publication date 16 June 2024

Last updated 4 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

Netatalk before 3.2.1 has an off-by-one error and resultant heap-based buffer overflow because of setting ibuf[len] to '\0' in FPMapName in afp_mapname in etc/afpd/directory.c. 2.4.1 and 3.1.19 are also fixed versions.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
netatalk	25.10 questing	Not affected
	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed 3.1.18~ds-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
	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
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.2.5-1ubuntu0.2+esm2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.2.2-1ubuntu2.2+esm2

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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