CVE-2023-34966

Samba: infinite loop in mdssvc rpc service for spotlight

Published Jul 20, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 62.4% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

Vendor Workaround

As a possible workaround, disable Spotlight by removing all configuration stanzas ("spotlight=yes|true") that enable Spotlight .

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5477-1 samba security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5647-1 samba security update
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-6238-1 Samba vulnerabilities
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7582-1 Samba vulnerabilities