CVE-2023-34967
CVSS 3.1 Score 5.3 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Jul 20, 2023
Updated: Jan 30, 2024
CWE ID 843
Summary
CVE-2023-34967 is a Type Confusion vulnerability affecting Samba's mdssvc RPC service for Spotlight. The issue lies in the lack of type checking in the dalloc_value_for_key() function when parsing Spotlight mdssvc RPC packets. This can cause a crash in talloc_get_size() when an invalid talloc pointer is detected. With a shared RPC worker process serving multiple client connections, a malicious client or attacker can trigger a process crash in the shared mdssvc worker process, impacting all other clients it serves.
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