Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
CVE-2023-34966
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 pa…
EPSS: 0.620 (99.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 — versions 0:4.18.6-1.el8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support — versions 0:4.15.5-15.el8_6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8 Extended Update Support — versions 0:4.17.5-5.el8_8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 — versions 0:4.18.6-100.el9
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Extended Update Support — versions 0:4.17.5-105.el9_2
- Red Hat Storage 3
- Red Hat Virtualization 4 For Enterprise Linux 8 — versions 0:4.15.5-15.el8_6
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- RHSA-2023:6667 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT)
- RHSA-2023:7139 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT)
- RHSA-2024:0423 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT)
- RHSA-2024:0580 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT)
- RHSA-2024:4101 (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT)
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34966 (vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT)
- RHBZ#2222793 (issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT)
- www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2023-34966
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-34966?
- CVE-2023-34966 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, classified under Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-07-20.
- How severe is CVE-2023-34966?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2023-34966 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.