CVE-2023-34966

high

Description

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.

References

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7139

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6667

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-07-20

Updated: 2024-09-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High