Protection Mechanism Failure Affecting netatalk package, versions [3.1.2,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NETATALK-16874148
  • published25 May 2026
  • disclosed21 May 2026
  • creditArjun Basnet

Introduced: 21 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-44071  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-693  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Protection Mechanism Failure due to the absence of runtime buffer overflow protection. An attacker can cause a minor service disruption by triggering memory errors that would otherwise be detected and safely terminated.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1