7.5
High
CVE-2023-34966 An infinite loop vulnerability was found in Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotlight
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.
Affected products and versions
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Versions not published | |
| Red Hat Storage 3 | Versions not published |
References
- RHSA-2023:6667 access.redhat.com
- RHSA-2023:7139 access.redhat.com
- RHSA-2024:0423 access.redhat.com
- RHSA-2024:0580 access.redhat.com
- RHSA-2024:4101 access.redhat.com
- access.redhat.com access.redhat.com
- RHBZ#2222793 bugzilla.redhat.com
- www.samba.org www.samba.org
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