Samba: infinite loop in mdssvc rpc service for spotlight
33Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.5epss 62%
exploitation probability
62%top 1% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update SupportRed Hat · Red Hat Storage 3Red Hat · Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6667https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7139https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0423https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0580https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4101https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34966https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222793https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BPCSGND7LO467AJGR5DYBGZLTCGTOBCC/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OT74M42E6C36W7PQVY3OS4ZM7DVYB64Z/https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230731-0010/https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5477https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2023-34966