Patch the Samba bug before a network worm exploits it

Software will always have bugs. The challenge is finding and closing them before attackers figure out what kind of damage they can cause by exploiting them. In the case of the Samba networking utility, the remote code execution bug can be potentially exploited by a network worm, which means the addressing this vulnerability just shot to the top—or nearly to the top—of the sysadmin’s to-do list.

Samba is an implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol that lets Unix and Linux systems access Windows file and print services, as well as interoperate with Windows networking features such as Active Directory and Windows Server Domain. Many home and corporate network storage systems run Samba, and it’s very straightforward to enable the Samba service on any Linux endpoint.

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