CVE-2015-5198

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-08-31
Bugzilla:
1253824: CVE-2015-5198 libvdpau incorrect check for security transition

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5198 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 6.2
Base Metrics AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 libvdpau Will not fix

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.

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