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CVE-2015-5198

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.2 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-09-08 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

libvdpau before 1.1.1, when used in a setuid or setgid application, allows local users to gain privileges via unspecified vectors, related to the VDPAU_DRIVER_PATH environment variable.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 15.04
• Libvdpau Project Libvdpau: through 1.1.0

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=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

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