Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-16638
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 48.0%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
CVSS v2 Score 10.0
References
Products affected by CVE-2017-16638
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