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CVE-2022-23125

Published: Mar 28, 2023

Modified: Nov 4, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

9.8

CRITICAL

Description

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Netatalk. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the copyapplfile function. When parsing the len element, the process does not properly validate the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length stack-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of root. Was ZDI-CAN-15869.

VendorProductVersions

Netatalk

Netatalk

affected
5.18.117

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-121

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

DSA-5503
vendor-advisory
GLSA-202311-02
vendor-advisory

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