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CVE-2023-34966

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…

Severity
High 7.5
Published
20 Jul 2023
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Fixed in
4.16.11, 4.17.10, 4.18.5
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
SambaServers and applications · cpe:a:samba:samba
  • Every version before 4.16.11
  • From 4.17.0 before 4.17.10
  • From 4.18.0 before 4.18.5

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34966
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-34966