CVE-2023-34966 · cross-distro fix matrix

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 packet that contains the count of elements in an array-like str

Affects 3 Linux releases across 3 (distro × package) combinations.

Fix per ecosystem

Each block below is a distro release where CVE-2023-34966 has a known fix. Run the listed command on that distro to remediate.

Debian bullseye

Source: Debian Security Tracker

samba→ fixed in2:4.13.13+dfsg-1~deb11u6urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y samba
```

Debian bookworm

Source: Debian Security Tracker

samba→ fixed in2:4.17.10+dfsg-0+deb12u1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y samba
```

Debian trixie

Source: Debian Security Tracker

samba→ fixed in2:4.18.5+dfsg-1urgency: not yet assigned
```
sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade -y samba
```

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