CVE-2014-3493: Samba

Low severity, CVSS 2.7. EPSS: 7.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Samba Samba: version 3.6.0 only; version 3.6.1 only; version 3.6.2 only; version 3.6.3 only; version 3.6.4 only; version 3.6.5 only; …

Published 2014-06-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.