CVE-2017-16638

The Gentoo net-misc/vde package before version 2.3.2-r4 may allow members of the "qemu" group to gain root privileges by creating a hard link in a directory on which "chown" is called recursively by the OpenRC service script.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2017-11-06

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-732

Affected products

• Vde (Vde Project)

References

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/603382
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-11