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CVE-2015-5199

Impact:: Moderate
Public Date:: 2015-08-31

Bugzilla:: 1253826: CVE-2015-5199 libvdpau directory traversal in dlopen

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Directory traversal vulnerability in dlopen in libvdpau before 1.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via the VDPAU_DRIVER environment variable.

Find out more about CVE-2015-5199 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

Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).

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.

External References

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

Last Modified 2018-07-18T06:54:18+00:00

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