CVE-2017-8849

Description

smb4k before 2.0.1 allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging failure to verify arguments to the mount helper DBUS service.

References

https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20170510-2.txt

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42053/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-14

https://cgit.kde.org/smb4k.git/commit/?id=a90289b0962663bc1d247bbbd31b9e65b2ca000e

https://cgit.kde.org/smb4k.git/commit/?id=71554140bdaede27b95dbe4c9b5a028a83c83cce

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449656

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98737

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98690

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/10/3

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3951

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3