Symantec Security Warns Of Mac OS X ‘Windows Sharing’ Samba Bug

Symantec warns us this week of likely attacks against unpatched Mac OS Samba bugs, with the unfortunate Mac users still waiting for an update.

“This is significant exposure for Mac OS X users,” said a representative of Symantec Corp. “Samba is used in virtually every mixed environment where there are Macs and PCs, and the threat profile is much higher now that an exploit has been added to Metasploit.”

We advise those concerned to turn off any sharing capabilities and be as distant to anything that is unpatched as possible, whilst in the meantime Apple will hopefully have a patch on the way.

“Symantec Corp. this week warned Mac OS X users that the addition of an exploit to the Metasploit hacking framework had boosted the threat posed by an unpatched bug in Samba, the open-source file- and print-sharing software included with the Apple operating system,” Gregg Keizer said.

“Although the vulnerability was disclosed May 14 and patched that same day by the Samba community, Apple has not updated Mac OS X with a fix, said Symantec’s Alfred Huger, vice president of engineering with the security company’s response group,”

“Samba, which is also used by most Linux distributions to file- and print-sharing with Windows systems, is turned on in Mac OS X when users activate the Windows Sharing feature,” Keizer reported.

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