A vulnerability has been identified in the version of Samba included with Xandros, This effects the version Xandros that ships with the Asus Eee PC. Rise Security has discovered that root access can be granted using the exploit.

We recently acquired an ASUS Eee PC (if you want to know more about it, a lot of reviews are available on internet). The first thing we did when we put our hands at the ASUS Eee PC was to test its security.

While Samba is part of the pre-installed programs on the Eee PC is not enabled by default, we are currently awaiting updates from Asus on the status of a update to prevent this.

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