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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 frojack on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:08PM (3 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:08PM (#516486) Journal

    nt pipe support = no

    Done.

    (Like most other breathless report of flaws, this too is over hyped - usually by the windows apologists).

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:14PM (2 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:14PM (#516490) Journal

    But, but but then you can't distribute printer drivers! ;-)

    Yeah, there seems to be a simple fix. The interesting is to observe the comparative response time from discovery to fix. Secure Microsoft Windows is an oxymoron. So I'll guess most persons will not blame themselves for not achieving that and as consequence not use it for anything important.