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

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()3 min read5 · 3 reads
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2017-7494
Unauthenticated RCE in Samba via malicious shared library upload (SambaCry)
9.899%KEVRansomware
KEV

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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. Samba is open-source software (re-implementation of SMB networking protocol) that runs on the majority of operating systems available today, including Windows, Linux, UNIX, IBM System 390, and OpenVMS.

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