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7-Year-Old Samba Flaw Lets Hackers Access Thousands of Linux PCs Remotely

posted by on Saturday May 27 2017, @12:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the WannaCryToo dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Hackernews reports:

A 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Samba networking software that could allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected Linux and Unix machines.

[...] The newly discovered remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2017-7494) affects all versions newer than Samba 3.5.0 that was released on March 1, 2010.

"All versions of Samba from 3.5.0 onwards are vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability, allowing a malicious client to upload a shared library to a writable share, and then cause the server to load and execute it," Samba wrote in an advisory published Wednesday.

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  • (Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Saturday May 27 2017, @01:39PM (3 children)

    by NotSanguine (285) <{NotSanguine} {at} {SoylentNews.Org}> on Saturday May 27 2017, @01:39PM (#516399) Homepage Journal

    According to TFA, apparently nearly half a million people are this stupid... Hmm...

    "Think about how dumb the average guy is. Then realize that half of everyone else is dumber than that." --Often attributed to George Carlin (???)

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    No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Saturday May 27 2017, @03:05PM (2 children)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Saturday May 27 2017, @03:05PM (#516427) Journal

    What is most funny about that quote, is everyone thinks it is funny.

    • (Score: 2) by zocalo on Saturday May 27 2017, @03:16PM

      by zocalo (302) on Saturday May 27 2017, @03:16PM (#516432)
      And the genius of the joke is that for that to work half of those laughing have to be too dumb to realise that it's about them, thus proving the point of the joke. Here's George Carlin doing the sketch live [youtube.com], for those not familar with it (NSFW) - well worth checking out his other material too - always hilarious and insightful.
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      UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @03:21PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @03:21PM (#516433)

      hehehe!
      o wait