The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6146-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of user-supplied data in the DSI     structures. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with the privileges     of the user invoking the programs. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2021-31439)

    It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of user-supplied data in the     ad_addcomment function. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with     root privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-0194)

    It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly handle errors when parsing AppleDouble entries. A remote     attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
    (CVE-2022-23121)

    It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of user-supplied data in the     setfilparams function. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with root     privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-23122)

    It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of user-supplied data in the     getdirparams function. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with root     privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04     LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-23123)

    It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of user-supplied data in the     get_finderinfo function. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with     root privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-23124)

    It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of user-supplied data in the     copyapplfile function. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with root     privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Ubuntu 20.04     LTS and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2022-23125)

    It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly validate the length of user-supplied data in the     dsi_writeinit function. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code with     root privileges. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and Ubuntu 22.10.
    (CVE-2022-43634)

    It was discovered that Netatalk did not properly manage memory under certain circumstances. If a user were     tricked into opening a specially crafted .appl file, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to     execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2022-45188)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : Netatalk vulnerabilities (USN-6146-1)

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Version 1.3 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.2 Oct 16, 2023, 9:38 PM Detection Plugin Feed: 202310162138
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