Description
Netatalk is a Free and Open Source file server suite for Unix-like operating systems. In versions 3.1.19 through 4.4.2, a stack-based buffer overflow exists in the copydir() function of Netatalk's afpd daemon due to an integer underflow in the calculation of the remaining buffer size used for path construction. copydir() is a utility function called when a file operation crosses a device boundary inside an AFP shared volume, which the standard library's renameat() cannot handle. The function attempts to track available buffer space using srem and drem for source and destination paths. Incorrect arithmetic causes both srem and drem to underflow to SIZE_MAX. Consequently, boundary checks against strlen(de->d_name) always pass, allowing strcpy() to append filenames into nearly full stack buffers. Version 4.4.3 patches the issue. As a workaround, configure each AFP shared volume to be structured as a single file system, in other words no subdirectory of a shared volume should be a mount point for a different file system.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Netatalk | netatalk | >= 3.1.19, < 4.4.3 | — |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | netatalk | 4.4.3~ds-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | netatalk | 4.2.3~ds-1+deb13u2 | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | netatalk | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | netatalk | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 25.10 | netatalk | No fix yet | — |
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS | netatalk | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS | netatalk | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS | netatalk | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS | netatalk | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS | netatalk | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS | netatalk | No fix yet | — |
Alpine
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine v3.24 | netatalk | 4.4.3-r0 | — |