CVE-2023-34966
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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.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.5
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Modified
Source identifier
Published
2023-07-20 15:15:11.333000
Last modified
2026-11-07 07:16:59.310000
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