PT-2017-14504
CVE-2017-16638
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Published
2017-11-06
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Updated
2019-10-03
Description by
CVSS 2.0
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CriticalMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Gentoo net-misc/vde versions prior to 2.3.2-r4
Description
The issue 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.
Recommendations
For versions prior to 2.3.2-r4, update to version 2.3.2-r4 or later to resolve the issue.
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