New Linux Samba vulnerability and fix

A new vulnerability was found in Linux Samba from version 3.5 and above. Details here:

https://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2017-7494.html

The workaround is easy and is contained in the link above:

in your /etc/samba/smb.conf file, add the following in the [global] section:

nt pipe support = no

Then restart smbd with 'service smb restart'