"The Samba Team released a patch on Monday for the second major security flaw found in the past few weeks in the open-source group's widely used program for sharing Windows files between Unix and Linux systems. The security problem could easily let an attacker compromise any Samba server connected to the Internet. The vulnerability is unrelated to the previous flaw, for which Samba released a patch on March 17," reports CNet. The hole is already being used by hackers.
A later story says Digital Defence "has apologized for prematurely disclosing the code needed to take advantage of a serious vulnerability in Samba."
