The vulnerability of Samba software allows a malicious individual to compromise the accessibility of protected information.

The vulnerability in the pushascii function of Samba’s smbd allows remote users who have completed authentication to trigger a service failure—a memory-related error and an unexpected termination of the daemon—by attempting to read the path name in Unicode format without using Unicode. This leads...

CVE-2014-3493

The pushascii 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...