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CVE-2023-34966 — An infinite loop vulnerability was found in Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotl

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 elem

CVSS
7.5 HIGH
EPSS
15.90% (top 5.30%)
CWE
CWE-835
Published
2023-07-20T14:56:14.644Z
Last modified
2025-11-20T17:28:59.854Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

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…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 80:4.18.6-1.el8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 80:4.18.6-1.el8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support0:4.15.5-15.el8_6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support0:4.17.5-5.el8_8
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 90:4.18.6-100.el9
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 90:4.18.6-100.el9
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support0:4.17.5-105.el9_2
Red HatRed Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 80:4.15.5-15.el8_6
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 6unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Enterprise Linux 7unspecified
Red HatRed Hat Storage 3unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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