Samba: infinite loop in mdssvc rpc service for spotlight
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 consuming 100% CPU. This flaw allows an attacker to issue a malformed RPC request, triggering an infinite loop, resulting in a denial of service condition.
Affected products
- ==4.17.10
- ==4.18.5
- *
- ==4.16.11
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.samba4
Standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 4.22.3
pkgs.sambaFull
Standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 4.22.3
pkgs.samba4Full
Standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix
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nixos-unstable -
- nixpkgs-unstable 4.22.3
Package maintainers
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@aneeshusa Aneesh Agrawal <aneeshusa@gmail.com>
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@jbedo Justin Bedő <cu@cua0.org>