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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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:27:04.404Z

Reserved: 2017-11-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-16638

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-11-06T23:29:00.297

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-16638

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