CVE-2017-16638: Vde Project Vde

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Vde Project Vde: before 2.3.2 (fixed in 2.3.2)

Published 2017-11-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.