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CVE-2014-3493 Detail

Description

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.


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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0279.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0866.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136864.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-June/134717.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0866.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/59378 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/59407 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/59433 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/59579 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/59834 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/59848 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/59919 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/61218 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-15.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2014:136 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:082 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2014-3493 CVE, Inc., Red Hat Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532757/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/68150 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030455 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://blogs.oracle.com/sunsecurity/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_samba1 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1108748 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05115993 CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-3493
NVD Published Date:
06/23/2014
NVD Last Modified:
04/12/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.