Gentoo Linux: CVE-2017-16638: VDE: Privilege escalation
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(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
11/06/2017
07/25/2018
11/13/2017
12/01/2017
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.
Solution(s)
- gentoo-linux-upgrade-net-misc-vde
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