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CVE-2023-34966

An infinite loop vulnerability was found in Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotlight.

Impact

An infinite loop vulnerability was found in Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotlight. When parsing Spotlight mdssvc RPC packets sent by the client, the core unmarshalling function sl_unpack_loop() did not validate a field in the network packet that contains the count of elements in an array-like structure. By passing 0 as the count value, the attacked function will run in an endless loop consuming 100% CPU. This flaw allows an attacker to issue a malformed RPC request, triggering an infinite loop, resulting in a denial of service condition.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
SambaSamba
before 4.16.11
from 4.17.0 before 4.17.10
from 4.18.0 before 4.18.5
FedoraprojectFedora
Versions 37, 38
RedhatEnterprise Linux
Versions 8.0, 9.0
DebianDebian Linux
Versions 11.0, 12.0

Weakness classification

CWE-835

References