A wormable code-execution bug has lurked in Samba for 7 years. Patch now!
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 […]