Directory Traversal Affecting libvdpau-docs package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBVDPAUDOCS-1333373
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed31 Aug 2015

Introduced: 31 Aug 2015

CVE-2015-5199  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 libvdpau-docs.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libvdpau-docs package and not the libvdpau-docs package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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

CVSS Scores

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