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Alpine: multiple netatalk packages: security update to 3.1.17-r0

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 427026

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - A Type Confusion vulnerability was found in the Spotlight RPC functions in afpd in Netatalk 3.1.x before
 3.1.17. When parsing Spotlight RPC packets, one encoded data structure is a key-value style dictionary
 where the keys are character strings, and the values can be any of the supported types in the underlying
 protocol. Due to a lack of type checking in callers of the dalloc_value_for_key() function, which returns
 the object associated with a key, a malicious actor may be able to fully control the value of the pointer
 and theoretically achieve Remote Code Execution on the host. This issue is similar to CVE-2023-34967.
 (CVE-2023-42464)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2023-42464

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 427026

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Published: 5/16/2025

Updated: 11/12/2025

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-42464

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/20/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-42464