Bug 1253826 (CVE-2015-5199) - CVE-2015-5199 libvdpau directory traversal in dlopen
Summary: CVE-2015-5199 libvdpau directory traversal in dlopen
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2015-5199
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1253829 1258644
Blocks: 1215757 1253830
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Reported: 2015-08-14 19:46 UTC by Florian Weimer
Modified: 2023-05-12 10:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2021-10-21 00:46:40 UTC
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Description Florian Weimer 2015-08-14 19:46:40 UTC 
It was discovered that libvdpau does not guard against directory traversal while processing the VDPAU_DRIVER environment variable.  This may allow local attackers gain additional privileges.

Acknowledgements:

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.
Comment 2 Florian Weimer 2015-08-31 21:55:32 UTC 
External references:

http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-August/002630.html
Comment 3 Florian Weimer 2015-08-31 21:57:14 UTC 
Created libvdpau tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1258644]
Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2015-09-04 19:45:52 UTC 
libvdpau-1.1.1-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 5 Adam Mariš 2015-09-08 07:21:48 UTC 
Upstream patch:

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~aplattner/libvdpau/commit/?id=d1f9c16b1a8187110e501c9116d21ffee25c0ba4
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2015-09-24 08:26:47 UTC 
libvdpau-1.1.1-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2015-11-01 22:19:51 UTC 
libvdpau-1.1.1-2.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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