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authorV3n3RiX <venerix@redcorelinux.org>2017-11-15 17:13:45 +0000
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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>2017-11-12: 1</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 Gentoo’s 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>