CVE-2014-3493
The push_ascii function in smbd in Samba 3.6.x before 3.6.24, 4.0.x before 4.0.19, and 4.1.x before 4.1.9 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and daemon crash) via an attempt to read a Unicode pathname without specifying use of Unicode, leading to a character-set conversion failure that triggers an invalid pointer dereference.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.7 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 7.3% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-3498)
- Published
- June 23, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-3498 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- samba / samba
- samba / samba
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and 2 more…
References
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0279.html
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0866.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136864.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134717.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0866.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59378
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59407
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59433
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59579
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59834
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59848
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59919
- http://secunia.com/advisories/61218
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-15.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:136
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:082
- http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2014-3493(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532757/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68150
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030455
- https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_samba1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1108748
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05115993
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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