CVE-2015-5198

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

Publication date:

08/09/2015

Last modified:

12/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.20 HIGH
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0

7.20

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:libvdpau_project:libvdpau::::::::		1.1.0 (including)
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::lts:::
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:15.04:::::::*

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CVE-2015-5198

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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