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CVE-2014-3493

samba: smbd unicode path names denial of service

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

2.7

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

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 2.7
AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-253 · Incorrect Check of Function Return Value