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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201711-11">
<title>VDE: Privilege escalation</title>
<synopsis>A vulnerability was discovered in VDE which may allow local users
to gain root privileges.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">vde</product>
<announced>2017-11-12</announced>
<revised count="1">2017-11-12</revised>
<bug>603382</bug>
<access>local</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-misc/vde" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">2.3.2-r4</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">2.3.2-r4</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>VDE is an ethernet compliant virtual network that can be spawned over a
set of physical computer over the Internet.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>It was discovered that Gentoos default VDE installation suffered from
a privilege escalation vulnerability in the init script. This script
calls an unsafe chown command which gives members from “qemu”
group root privileges.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>A local attacker could escalate privileges to root.</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>All VDE users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-misc/vde-2.3.2-r4"
</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-16638">
CVE-2017-16638
</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2017-11-07T14:12:38Z">chrisadr</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2017-11-12T22:28:58Z">chrisadr</metadata>
</glsa>