VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2015-5199
Directory traversal vulnerability in dlopen in libvdpau before 1.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via the VDPAU_DRIVER environment variable.
HIGH 7.2EPSS 0.51%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.51%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in dlopen in libvdpau before 1.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via the VDPAU_DRIVER environment variable.
- CVSS 2.0
- 7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 0.51% probability · 42th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- canonical/ubuntu linux · libvdpau project/libvdpau
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170637.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165546.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167469.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00012.html
- http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-August/002630.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3355
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76636
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2729-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253826
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170637.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165546.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167469.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00012.html
- http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-August/002630.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3355
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76636
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2729-1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253826
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.