Fedora 24 Smb4k: Critical Threat Due To Unauthorized Execution

Smb4K is an SMB/CIFS share browser for KDE. It uses the Samba software suite to

access the SMB/CIFS shares of the local network neighborhood. Its purpose is to

provide a program that's easy to use and has as many features as possible.

Security fix for CVE-2017-8849.

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

[ 1 ] Bug #1449658 - CVE-2017-8849 smb4k: unauthorized local command execution as root [fedora-all]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1449658

su -c 'dnf upgrade smb4k' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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