CVE-2022-23122

CRITICAL

netatalk < 3.1.13 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution via setfilparams Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 setfilparams function. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of 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-15837.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/05/msg00018.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5503
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202311-02
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/709991

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0757
EPSS Percentile 91.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-121 CWE-787
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 10.0
debian/debian_linux 11.0
netatalk/netatalk < 3.1.13
Published Mar 28, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026