CVE-2023-34966

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.

Primary references

• redhat — vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
• redhat — vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
• redhat — vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
• redhat — vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
• redhat — vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
• redhat — vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
• redhat — issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
• redhat