Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Nov 6, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-16638
CVE-2017-16638
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.
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Affected products
2- Range: <2.3.2-r4
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
2- bugs.gentoo.org/603382nvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-11nvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
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