A Type Confusion vulnerability was found in Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotlight. When parsing Spotlight mdssvc RPC packets, one encoded data structure is a key-value style dictionary where the keys are character strings, and the values can be any of the supported types
A Type Confusion vulnerability was found in Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotlight. When parsing Spotlight mdssvc RPC packets, one encoded data structure is a key-value style dictionary where the keys are character strings, and the values can be any of the supported types in the mdssvc protocol. Due to a lack of type checking in callers of the dalloc_value_for_key() function, which returns the…
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | 0:4.18.6-1.el8 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | 0:4.18.6-1.el8 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support | 0:4.15.5-15.el8_6 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support | 0:4.17.5-5.el8_8 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | 0:4.18.6-100.el9 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | 0:4.18.6-100.el9 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | 0:4.15.5-15.el8_6 |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | unspecified |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Storage 3 | unspecified |
Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.
For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.
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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.