Badlock — Unpatched Windows-Samba Vulnerability Affects All Versions of Windows

Security researchers have discovered a nasty security vulnerability that is said to affect almost every version of Windows and Samba and will be patched on April 12, 2016, the Samba development team announced Tuesday.



So, Save the Date if you are a Windows or Samba file server administrator.



Samba is a free, open source implementation of the SMB/CIFS network file sharing protocol that

Samba Service Hit By Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

A critical vulnerability has been fixed in Samba — Open Source standard Windows interoperability suite of programs for Linux and Unix, that could have allowed hackers to remotely execute an arbitrary code in the Samba daemon (smbd).



Samba is an open source implementation of the SMB/CIFS network file sharing protocol that works on the majority of operating systems available today, which