wanna cry ransomware patch for samba-4.5.5

[Tom Talpey]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: samba-technical [mailto:samba-technical-bounces at lists.samba.org] On
> Behalf Of Jeremy Allison via samba-technical
> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2017 2:50 PM
> To: Jawath Muckdhar <jawath12 at gmail.com>
> Cc: samba-technical at lists.samba.org
> Subject: Re: wanna cry ransomware patch for samba-4.5.5
> 
> On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 02:47:42PM +0530, Jawath Muckdhar via samba-
> technical wrote:
> > Hi Team,
> >
> > We are using samba-4.5.5. for file sharing in Mips Linux Platform.
> > Is there any fix available for "wanna cry" ransomware ?
> 
> As far as I know we're not vulnerable to the SMB1 exploit that allows this
> ransomware to propagate, it appears to be a Windows-specific implementation
> flaw.

There are several independent aspects to this attack, and Samba folks might be interested in this detailed preliminary analysis of the attack:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mmpc/2017/05/12/wannacrypt-ransomware-worm-targets-out-of-date-systems/

Tom.