Samba · Samba · CVE-2023-34967
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Samba (affected versions not specified)
**Description**
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.
**Recommendations**
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.