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CVE-2017-16638
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-11-06T23:29:00.297 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:09:35.837

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.

Affected products

vde_project — vde

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References

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