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Fedora 44 Netatalk Service Disruption and Information Leak Advisories

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Calendar Grey July 24, 2026
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The Fedora Update Notification covers Netatalk 4.5.1 addressing multiple security issues including DoS and information disclosure.
Fedora has released an update for Netatalk version 4.5.1, introducing security fixes and improvements to the Apple Filing Protocol file server software and its utilities.

Summary

Netatalk is a freely-available Open Source AFP file server. A *NIX/*BSD

system running Netatalk is capable of serving many Macintosh clients

simultaneously as an AppleShare file server (AFP).

In addition to the AFP file server daemon, the following utility programs

are also included:

* ad - AppleDouble file utility suite

* afpldaptest - validate Netatalk LDAP parameters

* afppasswd - RandNum UAM password management

* afpstats - inquire AFP server usage stats

* asip-status - inquire AFP server capabilities

* dbd - CNID database maintenance

Update Information:

4.5.1 Release

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Topics Covered

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Change Log

* Thu Jul 16 2026 Andrew Bauer - 5:4.5.1-1 - 4.5.1 release * Thu Jul 16 2026 Fedora Release Engineering - 5:4.4.3-3 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_45_Mass_Rebuild * Fri Jun 12 2026 Yaakov Selkowitz - 5:4.4.3-2 - Rebuilt for openssl 4.0

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2480442 - CVE-2026-44071 netatalk: Netatalk: Denial of Service due to missing buffer overflow detection [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2480442 [ 2 ] Bug #2480443 - CVE-2026-44074 netatalk: Netatalk: Service disruption due to incorrect error handling [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2480443 [ 3 ] Bug #2480445 - CVE-2026-7837 netatalk: Netatalk: Limited data modification due to TOCTOU condition [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2480445 [ 4 ] Bug #2480448 - CVE-2026-44075 netatalk: Netatalk: Minor service disruption via crafted DSI session options [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2480448 [ 5 ] Bug #2480460 - CVE-2026-44059 netatalk: Netatalk: Privilege bypass due to non-reentrant privilege toggle [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2480460 [ 6 ] Bug #2480463 - CVE-2026-7836 netatalk: Netatalk: Inte...

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Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2026-d085110cf3' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: netatalk
Product: Fedora 44
Version: 4.5.1
Release: 1.fc44
URL: http://netatalk.sourceforge.net
Summary: Open Source Apple Filing Protocol(AFP) File Server

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Topics Covered

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