CVE-2017-16638

critical

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-11

https://bugs.gentoo.org/603382

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-11-06

Updated: 2019-10-03

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical