VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-16638

critical
Published 2017-11-06 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
9.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-11

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugs.gentoo.org/603382

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
vde_projectvde{"endExcluding":"2.3.2"}2.3.2

References

CWEs

CWE-732

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.