Upstream information

CVE-2017-8849 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.2
Vector AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 7.8
Vector AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact High
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1033300 [RESOLVED], 1036245 [RESOLVED], 1041511 [RESOLVED], 749065 [RESOLVED], 869959 [RESOLVED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Leap 42.2
  • smb4k >= 1.2.1-3.3.1
  • smb4k-debuginfo >= 1.2.1-3.3.1
  • smb4k-debugsource >= 1.2.1-3.3.1
  • smb4k-doc >= 1.2.1-3.3.1
  • smb4k-lang >= 1.2.1-3.3.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-2017-595