Integer Underflow Affecting netatalk package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-NETATALK-16748214
  • published18 May 2026
  • disclosed17 Aug 2026

Introduced: 18 May 2026

CVE-2026-45698  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-191  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:11 netatalk.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream netatalk package and not the netatalk package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 deletedir() function of Netatalk's afpd daemon due to an integer underflow in the calculation of the remaining buffer size used for path construction. deletedir() 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 prevent buffer overflows by tracking available space in a size_t remain variable. However, the arithmetic used to compute remain results in an unsigned integer underflow, causing the variable to become SIZE_MAX. Because of this, the subsequent boundary check always evaluates as safe, allowing an unbounded strcpy() operation to copy attacker-controlled filenames into a nearly full stack buffer. Version 4.4.3 patches the issue.