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CVE-2023-34966

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
0.62146
Risk score
51.75
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2023-07-20
Modified
2025-11-20
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2023-39005, GHSA-45C7-642Q-QM9M
Products
Red Hat:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 patch: 0:4.18.6-1.el8, Red Hat:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support patch: 0:4.15.5-15.el8_6, Red Hat:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support patch: 0:4.17.5-5.el8_8, Red Hat:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 patch: 0:4.18.6-100.el9, Red Hat:Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support patch: 0:4.17.5-105.el9_2, Red Hat:Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 patch: 0:4.15.5-15.el8_6
Sources
euvd EUVD-2023-39005

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.

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