CVE-2014-3493
samba: smbd unicode path names denial of service
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 2.0
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Published · June 23, 2014
Updated · June 27, 2026
Description
It was discovered that smbd, the Samba file server daemon, did not properly handle certain files that were stored on the disk and used a valid Unicode character in the file name. An attacker able to send an authenticated non-Unicode request that attempted to read such a file could cause smbd to crash.
Statement
This issue affects the versions of samba3x as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This issue affects the versions of samba and samba4 as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. This issue affects the versions of samba as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. This issue did not affect the versions of samba as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 2.0 · 2.7AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
CWE-253 · Incorrect Check of Function Return Value