View at Official ubuntu advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail
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CVE-2017-8849 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (smb4k), 22 status rows across 22 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 16, ignored 3, DNE 1, needed 1, released 1.
smb4k before 2.0.1 allows local users to gain root privileges by leveraging failure to verify arguments to the mount helper DBUS service.