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It is also not immediately dangerous to run ksmbd, as 99.9% of users aren't exposing a SMB share to the internet. Most of them will be shared through a LAN at most, and even on enterprise solutions they're only accessed through a VPN.
It's definitely an issue for lateral movement through a network once it's infected, but that's not something regular users should worry about, for the most part.
Of course, apply the patch once it's available, but yeah, this is mostly a nothingburger.