Posts by thoughtpolice

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

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