DEBIAN-CVE-2023-34967
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.
Risk Scores
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:14 | samba | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:12 | samba | 2:4.17.10+dfsg-0+deb12u1~bpo11+1, 2:4.17.8+dfsg-2, 2:4.17.8+dfsg-2.1 |
| Debian:13 | samba | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:11 | samba | *, 0, 2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u1 |
Timeline
- Jul 20, 2023 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated