CVE-2014-3493

CVE Details

Release Date:	2014-06-23
Impact:	Low	What is this?

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.

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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score:	2.7
Vector String:	AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
Version:	2.0
Attack Vector:	Adjacent Network
Attack Complexity:	Low
Authentication:	Single
Confidentiality Impact:	None
Integrity Impact:	None
Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Linux version 5 (samba3x)	ELSA-2014-0866	2014-07-09
Oracle Linux version 6 (samba)	ELSA-2014-0866	2014-07-09
Oracle Linux version 7 (samba)	ELSA-2014-0867	2014-07-23