CVE-2017-16638

Critical

Description

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.

SeverityCritical

CVSS9.8

Exploit probability—

ProductVde

PublishedNov 6, 2017

First seenNov 6, 2017

How to fix

Update

vde_project vde2.3.2 or later

Vendor advisories

security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-11

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
vde_project vde	v < 2.3.2	2.3.2

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