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

Accepted submission by at 2017-05-25 18:21:38 from the Department of WannaCryToo dept.
Security

http://thehackernews.com/2017/05/samba-rce-exploit.html [thehackernews.com]

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.

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