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Ubuntu 23.04 USN-6552-1 Critical: netatalk Heap Corruption Threat

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Calendar Grey December 12, 2023
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
The Ubuntu Security Notification USN-6553-1 concerns a vulnerability in OpenSSL which permits unauthorized data manipulation via malicious requests.
Netatalk could be made to crash or run programs if it received specially crafted network traffic.

Summary

Netatalk could be made to crash or run programs if it received

specially crafted network traffic.

Software Description:

- netatalk: Apple Filing Protocol service

Details:

Florent Saudel and Arnaud Gatignol discovered that Netatalk incorrectly

handled certain specially crafted Spotlight requests. A remote attacker could

possibly use this issue to cause heap corruption and execute arbitrary code.

(CVE-2023-42464)

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical heap corruption Ubuntu remote execution netatalk

Update Instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following
package versions:

Ubuntu 23.04:
   netatalk                        3.1.14~ds-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS:
   netatalk                        3.1.12~ds-9ubuntu0.22.04.3

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS:
   netatalk                        3.1.12~ds-4ubuntu0.20.04.3

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6552-1

CVE-2023-42464

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-6552-1

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Topics Covered

security advisory critical heap corruption Ubuntu remote execution netatalk

Package Information

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netatalk/3.1.14~ds-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netatalk/3.1.12~ds-9ubuntu0.22.04.3
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/netatalk/3.1.12~ds-4ubuntu0.20.04.3

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