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CVE-2023-34967

A Type Confusion vulnerability was found in Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotlight.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 61.2%

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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 61.2%, higher than 99% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

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 object associated with a key, a caller may trigger a crash in talloc_get_size() when talloc detects that the passed-in pointer is not a valid talloc pointer. With an RPC worker process shared among multiple client connections, a malicious client or attacker can trigger a process crash in a shared RPC mdssvc worker process, affecting all other clients this worker serves.

CVSS 3.1
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS
61.20% probability · 99th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-843
Affected
samba/samba · fedoraproject/fedora · redhat/enterprise linux · debian/debian linux
Source
secalert@redhat.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.