CVE-2014-3560

high
Published 2014-08-06 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.9

Description

NetBIOS name services daemon (nmbd) in Samba 4.0.x before 4.0.21 and 4.1.x before 4.1.11 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors that modify heap memory, involving a sizeof operation on an incorrect variable in the unstrcpy macro in string_wrappers.h.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

redhat Red Hat Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected โ€”
6.0 Affected โ€”
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
14.04 Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2:4.1.11+dfsg-1
sid Fixed 2:4.1.11+dfsg-1
forky Fixed 2:4.1.11+dfsg-1
bullseye Fixed 2:4.1.11+dfsg-1
bookworm Fixed 2:4.1.11+dfsg-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
sambasamba4.1.0
sambasamba4.1.1
sambasamba4.1.2
sambasamba4.1.3
sambasamba4.1.4
sambasamba4.1.5
sambasamba4.1.6
sambasamba4.1.7
sambasamba4.1.8
sambasamba4.1.9
sambasamba4.1.10
sambasamba4.0.0
sambasamba4.0.1
sambasamba4.0.2
sambasamba4.0.3
sambasamba4.0.4
sambasamba4.0.5
sambasamba4.0.6
sambasamba4.0.7
sambasamba4.0.8
sambasamba4.0.9
sambasamba4.0.10
sambasamba4.0.11
sambasamba4.0.12
sambasamba4.0.13
sambasamba4.0.14
sambasamba4.0.15
sambasamba4.0.16
sambasamba4.0.17
sambasamba4.0.18
sambasamba4.0.19
sambasamba4.0.20

References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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