Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 23, 2014· Updated May 6, 2026
CVE-2014-3493
CVE-2014-3493
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.
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
23- www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2014-3493nvdVendor Advisory
- advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0279.htmlnvd
- linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-0866.htmlnvd
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- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0866.htmlnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/59378nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/59407nvd
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- secunia.com/advisories/59579nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/59834nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/59848nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/59919nvd
- secunia.com/advisories/61218nvd
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-15.xmlnvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvd
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- www.securityfocus.com/bid/68150nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1030455nvd
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- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvd
- h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplaynvd
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