CVE-2015-5199

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2729-1

Severity Score

7.8

*CVSS v3

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

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

Vulnerabilidad de salto de directorio en dlopen en libvdpau en versiones anteriores a 1.1.1, permite a usuarios locales obtener privilegios a través de la variable de entorno VDPAU_DRIVER.

Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security discovered that libvdpau, the VDPAU wrapper library, did not properly validate environment variables, allowing local attackers to gain additional privileges.

*Credits: N/A

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

None

Confidentiality

Complete

Integrity

Complete

Availability

Complete

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2015-07-01 CVE Reserved
2015-09-03 CVE Published
2024-08-06 CVE Updated
2025-03-30 EPSS Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CAPEC

References (9)

URL	Tag	Source
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2015-August/002630.html	Mailing List
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76636	Vdb Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253826	X_refsource_confirm

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-November/170637.html	2016-12-22
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165546.html	2016-12-22
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/167469.html	2016-12-22
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-09/msg00012.html	2016-12-22
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3355	2016-12-22
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2729-1	2016-12-22

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				12.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "12.04"		lts		Affected
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				14.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "14.04"		lts		Affected
Canonical Search vendor "Canonical"		Ubuntu Linux Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux"				15.04 Search vendor "Canonical" for product "Ubuntu Linux" and version "15.04"		-		Affected
Libvdpau Project Search vendor "Libvdpau Project"		Libvdpau Search vendor "Libvdpau Project" for product "Libvdpau"				<= 1.1.0 Search vendor "Libvdpau Project" for product "Libvdpau" and version " <= 1.1.0"		-		Affected