CVE-2014-3560

high
Published 2014-08-06 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
7.9
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

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-3560

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2014-3560

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
ubuntu ubuntu14.04affected
redhat rhel6.0affected
redhat rhel7.0affected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:4.1.11+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:4.1.11+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:4.1.11+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed2:4.1.11+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:4.1.11+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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.