CVE-2023-34967
Status: ModifiedMedium (5.3)—
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
- Version: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Base score: 5.3
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 61%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 99
- Score date: 10/7/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (4)
CWEs
- CWE-843
- CWE-843
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6667
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7139
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0423
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0580
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34967
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222794
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2023-34967.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6667
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7139
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0423
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0580
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-34967
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2222794
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BPCSGND7LO467AJGR5DYBGZLTCGTOBCC/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/OT74M42E6C36W7PQVY3OS4ZM7DVYB64Z/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230731-0010/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5477
- https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2023-34967.html
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