Netatalk vulnerabilities
Summary
Arjun Basnet discovered that Netatalk improperly validated inputs when unmarshalling Spotlight Remote Procedure Call. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information. (CVE-2026-44066) Arjun Basnet discovered that Netatalk improperly sanitized extended attribute path components. A remote authenticated attacker could possibly use this issue to perform path traversal attacks and write to arbitrary files outside the intended metadata directory. (CVE-2026-44068) Affected Ubuntu releases: 26.04, 24.04, 22.04, 20.04, 18.04, 16.04, 14.04. CVEs: CVE-2026-44068, CVE-2026-44066.
- Ubuntu 26.04
- Ubuntu 24.04
- Ubuntu 22.04
- Ubuntu 20.04
- Ubuntu 18.04
- Ubuntu 16.04
- Ubuntu 14.04
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Apply available updates: `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` (a standard system update installs the fix).
Official advisory · medium-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
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