CVE-2015-5199

Description

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://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253826

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3