Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Samba Hit By 'Highly Critical' Vulnerability

Posted by timothy on from the because-people-are-bad dept.

sawky puck writes "Researchers at Secunia have flagged a 'highly critical' vulnerability in Samba, the widely deployed open-source software for networked file sharing and printing. Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code by tricking a user into connecting to a malicious server (e.g. by clicking an 'smb://' link) or by sending specially crafted packets to an 'nmbd' server configured as a local or domain master browser. This issue affects both Samba client and server installations."

2 of 70 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Vulnerability? And how! by kellyb9 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I sure know I have a highly critical vulnerability to a pretty Brazillian lady doing the Samba, eh gents? I know you can mod something funny, but is there any way to mod something !Funny?
  2. CIFS by FunkyELF · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I noticed recently that Samba was deprecated in the kernel and that you're supposed to use CIFS. But this is for mounting...what about the servers. Is there a CIFS server for Linux...I know there is one for Solaris.