ATTENTION SAMBA SECURITY TEAM... DEADLY SAMBA TROJAN ATTACHED TO THIS MAIL

[Tim Potter]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:24:34AM -0400, Lanny Baron wrote:

> A system I use was toasted on the weekend. The attachment is what was
> left of /root  on a FreeBSD box.
> 
> The tarball unpacks to 3 files. 
> It will change root passwd and in our case, made sudo useless.

If this is indeed legitimate you should send it to security at samba.org
not the samba-technical list.  Mailman will have helpfully stripped out 
the attachment.

Have you upgraded to Samba 2.2.8a?


Tim.