Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title libvdpau vulnerabilities
Informations
Name USN-2729-1 First vendor Publication 2015-09-03
Vendor Ubuntu Last vendor Modification 2015-09-03
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 7.2 Attack Range Local
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 3.9 Authentication None Required
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Detail

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

- Ubuntu 15.04 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary:

libvdpau could be made to run programs as an administrator.

Software Description: - libvdpau: Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix

Details:

Florian Weimer discovered that libvdpau incorrectly handled certain environment variables. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to gain privileges.

Update instructions:

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.04:
libvdpau1 0.9-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:
libvdpau1 0.7-1ubuntu0.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:
libvdpau1 0.4.1-3ubuntu1.2

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References:
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2729-1
CVE-2015-5198, CVE-2015-5199, CVE-2015-5200

Package Information:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvdpau/0.9-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvdpau/0.7-1ubuntu0.1
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libvdpau/0.4.1-3ubuntu1.2

Original Source

Url : http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2729-1

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
50 % CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Os 3

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2016-03-04 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-3ca3f2138b.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-09 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1925-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-11-05 Name : The remote SUSE host is missing one or more security updates.
File : suse_SU-2015-1892-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-25 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-14851.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-14 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : openSUSE-2015-576.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-11 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-306.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-11 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-3355.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2015-14850.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2015-09-04 Name : The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.
File : ubuntu_USN-2729-1.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2015-09-09 21:31:51
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2015-09-08 21:31:44
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2015-09-05 13:32:05
  • Multiple Updates
2015-09-03 21:23:18
  • First insertion