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Windows 7 to hit consumers with known security problem

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Microsoft's latest operating system, Windows 7, is currently shipping with a potentially serious defect. Ahead of the product's global launch on Thursday, Germany's federal IT security agency (BSI) has issued a warning about a high-risk vulnerability in the SMB2 protocol. This can be exploited over the network to shut down a computer with a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

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Comments (3)

chalbersma ·
Does this affect samba on unix client?
jdixon ·
Since the nature of the exploit isn't known yet, we probably don't know. However, AFAIK, they haven't bothered to notify the Samba folks if it does.
chalbersma ·
Well let's hope it's fixed with the newest versions of Samba at least.

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