VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-5199

high
Published 2015-09-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.2

Description

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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
ubuntu Ubuntu Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
15.04 Affected —
14.04 Affected —
12.04 Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.1.1-1
sid Fixed 1.1.1-1
forky Fixed 1.1.1-1
bullseye Fixed 1.1.1-1
bookworm Fixed 1.1.1-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
libvdpau_projectlibvdpau{"endIncluding":"1.1.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-22

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.