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CVE-2015-5199

Date: September 8, 2015

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

Language: C

Severity Score

8.4

Related Resources (12)

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5199

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-5199

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

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-5199

Severity Score

8.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CWE-22

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.2
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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