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Very well may be, at least for some people. SMB protocol (which "Samba" is named for) is the second standard option for file sharing in OS X after Apple's AFP.
by hamstergene 11y ago
Very well may be, at least for some people. SMB protocol (which "Samba" is named for) is the second standard option for file sharing in OS X after Apple's AFP.
I'm not sure if smb daemons are on all the time or not, but any Mac that has served files to a Windows machine may be affected.
- spilk 11y agoSMB is the standard on recent versions of OSX, AFP is deprecated.
- matheweis 11y agoApple did a ground up rewrite of their SMB services after SAMBA changed to GPLv3... so their code base is completely separate. Depending on the exact nature of the vulnerability, it's possible that OS X isn't vulnerable even though Windows and SAMBA (oddly) both are. Or it's possible that Apple didn't want to be part of the PR move ...