CVE-2023-34966 (GCVE-0-2023-34966)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-07-20 14:56 – Updated: 2025-11-20 17:28
VLAI?
Title
Samba: infinite loop in mdssvc rpc service for spotlight
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:4.18.6-1.el8 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:4.18.6-1.el8 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::crb
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::baseos
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:4.15.5-15.el8_6 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::crb
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:4.17.5-5.el8_8 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.8::crb
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:4.18.6-100.el9 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::resilientstorage
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Unaffected: 0:4.18.6-100.el9 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::crb
    cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::resilientstorage
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support Unaffected: 0:4.17.5-105.el9_2 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::crb
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::resilientstorage
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:9.2::appstream
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    Red Hat Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Unaffected: 0:4.15.5-15.el8_6 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::baseos
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::appstream
    cpe:/o:redhat:rhev_hypervisor:4.4::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_eus:8.6::crb
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6
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    Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7     cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7
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    Red Hat Red Hat Storage 3     cpe:/a:redhat:storage:3
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