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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, @06:12PM (3 children)

    by frojack (1554) on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:12PM (#516488) Journal

    I'll guess that plain filesharing on a local LAN is what most people want. How much code it takes to implement just that and nothing else would be interesting to find out.

    Omniscience is very hard to program.
    Start by defining some basic terms:

    plain filesharing
    Local LAN

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  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:16PM (2 children)

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday May 27 2017, @06:16PM (#516491) Journal

    Local LAN = within same netmask and behind any NAT or firewall. Presumably within the same building.
    Plain filesharing = Open share, write file, read file, close share.

    • (Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday May 27 2017, @08:23PM (1 child)

      by wonkey_monkey (279) on Saturday May 27 2017, @08:23PM (#516524) Homepage

      Local LAN =...

      Local Local Area Network.

      I think the "Local Local" bit may be what exception was taken to.

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @09:40PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @09:40PM (#516532)

        It could be LAN network inside VPN network that goes over WAN network.

        >;P