CVE-2026-44070 (GCVE-0-2026-44070)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-21 07:35 – Updated: 2026-05-21 07:52
VLAI?
Title
Unbounded realloc in charset conversion
Summary
An unbounded memory reallocation in the charset conversion code in Netatalk 2.0.0 through 4.4.2 allows a remote authenticated attacker to cause a minor denial of service via crafted character conversion requests.
Severity ?
3.1 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Netatalk Netatalk Affected: 2.0.0 , ≤ 4.4.2 (semver)
Unaffected: 4.5.0 (semver)
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Date Public ?
2026-05-13 00:00
Credits
Arjun Basnet from Securin
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