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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."

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  1. Wow, that is vulnerable! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So vulnerable that when I tried to read the story the first time it said "not found"!

  2. 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?
  3. Re:Damn! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hey Mark Lappin. That has to be you. The only young dork on the page of your little computer club Cajun Computer Club. Too bad Katrina didn't wipe your ass away. BTW are you fucking Faye? nm you're probably a virgin.

  4. Re:Damn! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    No, actually that's not Mark. Mark did kick twitter off the CCCC mailing list though. Apparently the "M$ Winblows" didn't go over too well there.

    As usual twitter just blamed it on Microsoft. Pretty much the same way psychopaths blame the devil and various voices in their heads for their good deeds.

  5. 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.

  6. Re:Damn! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    He's probably the most popular member. He reccomends a lot of things. Dissasster, Opps, Reccomend, Coppies, etc. Yeah, that's twitter alright. I can almost imagine him lecturing normal people on how liberated he feels because he doesn't use "Windoze".

    ...just the mental images.. the embarrassment... oh god