CVE-2022-23123

Published: 21 March 2022

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Netatalk. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the getdirparams method. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-15830. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Netatalk. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the getdirparams method. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of root.]

Notes

Backporting MR is still in progress and have some regression issue
Backporintg MR: https://github.com/Netatalk/Netatalk/pull/173

Status

Severity score breakdown

References

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-23123
• https://kb.cert.org/vince/comm/case/267/
• https://sourceforge.net/p/netatalk/mailman/message/37628321/
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6146-1
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian