CVE-2015-5198

libvdpau < 1.1.1 - Privilege Escalation via VDPAU_DRIVER_PATH Environment Variable

Title source: llm

Description

libvdpau before 1.1.1, when used in a setuid or setgid application, allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to the VDPAU_DRIVER_PATH environment variable.

References (9)

Core 9

Core References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167469.html

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76636

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170637.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165546.html

Issue Tracking x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253824

Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2729-1

Mailing List vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00012.html

Various Sources mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-August/002630.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3355

Scores

EPSS 0.0037

EPSS Percentile 29.7%

Details

CWE

CWE-264

Status published

Products (4)

canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 15.04

libvdpau_project/libvdpau < 1.1.0

Published Sep 08, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026