linux/mac file servers .... yep its time to update

demonfurbie

Decade-old flaw could affect Linux, Macs - Security - News - ZDNet Australia

i know ill be checking my servers today

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Forsaken_GA

Glad I tend to use NFS instead of SMB/CIFS!

Everyone

Prepare for a lot of data theft. Unfortunately I can see a lot of places not addressing this quickly, if at all, at least not until it's too late.

Everyone

Interesting that the version numbers it says you should upgrade to in the article to fix the vulnerability don't match the version numbers you get for RHEL. I checked my CentOS 6.2 box and it updated Samba to 3.5.10-115.el6_2. According to Red Hat, that is the patched version they've released.

Forsaken_GA

RHEL does things differently. The version number you see is the base level of the package for that release of Red Hat, and they don't update the base version number, they just update the -115.el6_2 part as they backport and build new packages with the security/bug fixes. Debian does the same thing.

undomiel

Just think about all those unpatched NAS boxes running Samba out there.

demonfurbie

undomiel wrote: »

Just think about all those unpatched NAS boxes running Samba out there.

yea alot of people forget those have an os and most of the time it is linux

onesaint

I'm sure I'd be surprised, but who runs SMB/CIFS over the WAN???

Everyone

FreeNAS released a fix for this...
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