UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5199

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5199

    Published: 1 Sept 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-5199
    Aliases:
    USN-2729-1

    Summary:

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

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5199, http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-August/002630.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2729-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-5199

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libvdpau

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.7-1ubuntu0.1

    Affected versions

    0.7-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High