5 min
Nexpose
Detecting CVE-2012-1182
I joined the Rapid7 team as a Security Researcher back in March. Since I've
started, I've been doing a lot of work primarily in the area of remote
vulnerability detection for Nexpose, and the work has already varied quite a bit
in scope and the challenges I've faced day-to-day. Today, I'm here to talk a
little bit about my work last month relating to the detection of CVE-2012-1182
[http://www.samba.org/samba/security/CVE-2012-1182], a recent high-profile samba
vulnerability
Background
For the