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Smoyle
Jan 29, 2024Follower
ReadyNAS 2120 v2 and NetaTalk
Good morning all, I have a ReadyNAS 2120 v2 running 6.5.0 firmware, everything is running fine but on a recent penetration test we had an alert advising us that NetaTalk is out of date and should be ...
schumaku
Jan 30, 2024Guru - Experienced User
Talking of the AFP protocol obsolete for almost two decades? NetAtalk is an Open Source implementation of the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP).
Operating AFP and SMB concurrently inherited many issues. Once upon a time, some strange recommendations - coming from times where the SMB protocol was not the de-facto standard. And back in about 2022, there was a vulnerability in "Samba vfs_fruit module insecurely handles extended file attributes" fixed later also on the ReadyNAS OS6 platform.
Wherever this warning came from - if users are ignorant keeping the ReadyNAS on a current build, not much we can talk about here. For reasons, the current ReadyNAS OS6 build is as of writing 6.10.10. Be warned it's not a straight forward use when it comes to new installations however.
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