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Samba has released software updates to remediate multiple vulnerabilities that, if successfully exploited, could allow an attacker to take control of affected systems. The high-severity flaws, tracked as CVE-2022-38023, CVE-2022-37966, CVE-2022-37967, and CVE-2022-45141, have been patched in versions 4.17.4, 4.16.8 and 4.15.13 released on December 15, 2022. Samba is an open source Windows interoperability suite […]
Vuln hit “all versions of Samba from 4.0.0 onward using embedded Heimdal Kerberos.” On Wednesday, the Samba Team released new security updates to fix a vulnerability in “all versions of Samba from 4.0.0 onward using embedded Heimdal Kerberos,” according to an announcement from the United States-Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). The upgrade comes in response to an invasive piece of malware which virally […]
Short Bytes: Researchers have warned that Linux and Unix machines are affected by a Samba exploit that could allow an attacker to take control of the systems. This could open doors to attacks similar to WannaCry. The Samba team and developers have pushed patches to fix the flaw. Samba is a free software license under […]
Comparisons to the Windows flaw WCry exploited are exaggerated, but only a little. Maintainers of the Samba networking utility just patched a critical code-execution vulnerability that could pose a severe threat to users until the fix is widely installed. The seven-year-old flaw, indexed as CVE-2017-7494, can be reliably exploited with just one line of code […]