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How To Protect Your Systems Against Critical SMB Vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-0796)
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How To Protect Your Systems Against Critical SMB Vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-0796)

Akamai·Igor Livshitz·about 1 month ago
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Microsoft has issued its latest set of cumulative updates for Windows for the month of March. There are a total of 117 vulnerabilities, 25 of which are rated critical \r\n \r\n One particular vulnerability stands out from the crowd: CVE-2020-0796. This is a critical vulnerability in the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol in new versions of Windows operating systems. This SMB vulnerability could cause a wide range of wormable attacks and potentially a new Eternal Blue. Without going into the gory details, a flaw in the new SMBv3 compression mechanism potentially allows an attacker to take down or take over a Windows system.…

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