Overview

\n The Samba team released a patch on May 24 for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in Samba, the most popular file sharing service for all Linux systems. Samba is commonly included as a basic system service on other Unix-based operating systems as well.

\n This vulnerability, indexed  CVE-2017-7494 , enables a malicious attacker with valid write access to a file share to upload and execute an arbitrary binary file which will run with Samba permissions.

\n The flaw can be exploited with just a few lines of code, requiring no interaction on the part of the end user.…