CVE-2015-5200

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 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

Description

The trace functionality in libvdpau before 1.1.1, when used in a setuid or setgid application, allows local users to write to arbitrary files via unspecified vectors.

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=1253827
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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