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0 CVE-2023-34966 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8's Samba mdssvc RPC service used for Spotlight. The flaw arises from improper validation of a count field in network packets, allowing an attacker to trigger an infinite loop by sending a malformed RPC request with a zero count value. This infinite loop causes 100% CPU consumption, leading to a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability requires no authentication or user interaction and can be exploited remotely over the network. Although no known exploits are currently reported in the wild, the impact on availability is significant. European organizations relying on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 servers running Samba services are at risk, especially those in critical infrastructure and enterprise environments. Mitigation involves applying vendor patches once available and implementing network-level filtering to restrict access to the vulnerable RPC service. Countries with high adoption of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, such as Germany, France, and the UK, are most likely to be affected. Join the discussion | CVE Database V5 | 07/20/2023, 14:56:14 UTC Added: 11/20/2025, 17:36:20 UTC |
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