CVE-2015-5198
First published: Fri Aug 14 2015(Updated: )
It was discovered that libvdpau incorrectly checks if the process underwent a security transition at startup, related to processing of the VDPAU_DRIVER_PATH environment variable. This may allow local attackers gain additional privileges. Acknowledgements: This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.
Credit: secalert@redhat.com
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Libvdpau Project Libvdpau | <=1.1.0 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =12.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =14.04 | |
| Canonical Ubuntu Linux | =15.04 |
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Reference Links
- http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-August/002630.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=1258644
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/libvdpau/commit/?id=d1f9c16b1a8187110e501c9116d21ffee25c0ba4
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253824
- 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://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3355
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76636
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2729-1
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