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.
https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2023-34966
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222793
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34966
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:4101
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0580
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0423