vulnerability

Samba CVE-2023-34966: CVE-2022-2127, CVE-2023-3347, CVE-2023-34966, CVE-2023-34967 and CVE-2023-34968. Please see announcements for details.

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 20, 2023
Added
Jul 31, 2023
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solutions

samba-upgrade-4_16_11samba-upgrade-4_17_10samba-upgrade-4_18_5
Title
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