CVE-2014-3493 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Samba versions 3.6.x, 4.0.x, and 4.1.x. Authenticated remote users can trigger a daemon crash and memory corruption by attempting to read a Unicode pathname without specifying Unicode usage, leading to a character-set conversion failure and an invalid pointer dereference. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 2.7, indicating a low severity with an adjacent network attack vector, low complexity, and partial availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, though it did receive some media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
3.6.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
3.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:samba:samba:3.6.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
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