Samba

Pierluigi Paganini December 17, 2022
Samba addressed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities

Samba released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities that can be exploited to take control of impacted systems. Samba released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-38023, CVE-2022-37966, CVE-2022-37967, and CVE-2022-45141, that can be exploited to take control of impacted systems. On December 15, 2022, Samba announced the 4.17.4, 4.16.8 and 4.15.13 security releases to address […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2022
Samba fixed CVE-2021-44142 remote code execution flaw

Samba fixes a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-44142, that can allow remote attackers to execute code with root privileges. Samba has addressed a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-44142, that can be exploited by remote attackers to gain code execution with root privileges on servers running vulnerable software. Samba is a free software re-implementation of the SMB networking […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 05, 2019
Year-Old Samba flaw allows escaping from the share path definition

Experts discovered a year-old flaw in Samba software that could be exploited to bypass file-sharing permissions and access forbidden root shares paths. Security researchers discovered a year-old vulnerability in Samba software that could be exploited, under certain conditions, to bypass file-sharing permissions and access forbidden root shares paths. “On a Samba SMB server for all […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 13, 2018
Samba fixed two critical vulnerabilities, update your version as soon as possible

  Maintainers at the Samba project have released new versions of the popular networking software to fix two critical vulnerabilities. Maintainers at the Samba project have released new versions of the popular open-source networking software to address two critical vulnerabilities that could be exploited by unprivileged remote attackers to launch DoS attacks against servers and […]

Pierluigi Paganini November 23, 2017
You need to patch your Samba installation as soon as possible

The major Linux distributions rolled out security fixes for a use-after-free error, tracked as CVE-2017-14746, affecting all versions of SAMBA since 4.0. The major Linux distributions (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian and others) rolled out security patches for a use-after-free error, tracked as CVE-2017-14746, affecting all versions of SAMBA since 4.0. Administrations have to apply the fixes to their distributions, […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 23, 2016
Badlock, a severe flaw affects every version of Windows and Samba

Developers from Microsoft and Samba Team are working on a security patch to fix a severe vulnerability dubbed Badlock. Developers from Microsoft and Samba are working on a security patch to fix a severe vulnerability that affects almost every version of Windows and Samba. Samba, which is present in nearly all Linux distributions, is a free […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 24, 2015
A critical remote execution flaw spotted in Samba Win-Linux interop code

CVE-2015-0240 is a critical security flaw in Samba that resides in the smbd file server daemon and can be exploited by a malicious Samba client remotely. Linux administrators urge to update their systems due to the discovery of a critical vulnerability the open source Linux-and-Windows-compatibility software Samba. The vulnerability in Samba, coded as CVE-2015-0240, affects versions […]