Vulnerability Report

CVE-2024-38441

Title: Netatalk Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2024-38441.

CWE Category CWE-193
Published Date Jun 16, 2024
Modified Date Nov 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.8 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.92%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2024-38441: Netatalk before 3.2.1 has an off-by-one error and resultant heap-based buffer overflow because of setting ibuf[len] to '\0' in FPMapName in afp_mapname in etc/afpd/directory.c. 2.4.1 and 3.1.19 are also fixed versions.

Impacted Vendors

N
netatalk 1

Reference Links

https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/90d91a9ac9a7d6132ab7620d31c8c23400949206/etc/afpd/directory.c#L2333 https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/1098 https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/security/advisories/GHSA-mj6v-cr68-mj9q https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2024-38441 https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/blob/90d91a9ac9a7d6132ab7620d31c8c23400949206/etc/afpd/directory.c#L2333 https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/issues/1098 https://github.com/Netatalk/netatalk/security/advisories/GHSA-mj6v-cr68-mj9q https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/11/msg00026.html https://netatalk.io/security/CVE-2024-38441
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0
Severity CRITICAL
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2024-38441 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.