vulnerability

Arch Linux: Privilege escalation (CVE-2017-8849)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
May 17, 2017
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

Smb4k <= 2.0.0 contains a logic flaw in which mount helper binary does not properly verify the mount command it is being asked to run. This allows calling any other binary as root since the mount helper is typically installed as suid.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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