Buffer overflow in Samba

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.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.073 (93.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Samba — versions 3.6.0, 3.6.1, 3.6.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References