CVE-2014-3560

Severity: high (CVSS 7.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 56.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

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.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 6.0, 7.0
Samba: 4.1.0, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 4.1.5 (+26)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136280.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-August/136864.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-08/msg00027.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/59583
http://secunia.com/advisories/59610
http://secunia.com/advisories/59976
http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2014-3560
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69021
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030663
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2305-1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1126010
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95081

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