Advisory Details

August 25th, 2023

Samba Spotlight mdssvc RPC Request Infinite Loop Denial-of-Service Vulnerability

CVE ID	CVE-2023-34967
CVSS SCORE	5.9, AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
AFFECTED VENDORS	Samba
AFFECTED PRODUCTS	Samba
VULNERABILITY DETAILS	This vulnerability allows remote attackers to create a denial-of-service condition on affected installations of Samba. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of Spotlight RPC arguments. Crafted arguments can force the server into an infinite loop. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to create a denial-of-service condition on the service.
ADDITIONAL DETAILS	Samba has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at: https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2023-34967.html
DISCLOSURE TIMELINE	2023-03-22 - Vulnerability reported to vendor 2023-08-25 - Coordinated public release of advisory
CREDIT	Florent Saudel (@thalium_team)

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