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CVE-2017-16638

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

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.

Affected products

• Vde Project Vde: before 2.3.2 — fixed in 2.3.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Vde Project Vde 2.3.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugs.gentoo.org/603382
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-11
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/603382
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-11

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