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CVE-2017-16638

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CVE-2017-16638

Published: Nov 6, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

GLSA-201711-11
vendor-advisory
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