CVE-2017-16638 (GCVE-0-2017-16638)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-11-06 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 20:27
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Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://bugs.gentoo.org/603382 x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-11 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2017-11-06 00:00
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