Sysadmins tending Samba need to get patching. Samba’s announcement, here, explains that it’s suffering from a remote code execution bug that applies to all versions newer than Samba 3.5.0. The software, currently at version 4.6.4, provides *nix integration with Windows file and print services. In CVE-2017-7494, a malicious client can “upload a shared library to a writable share, and then cause the server to load and execute it.”
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ORIGINAL SOURCE: theregister.co.uk