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.

libvdpau was updated to use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() for several variables so it can be more safely used in setuid applications.

  - CVE-2015-5198: libvdpau: incorrect check for security     transition (bnc#943967)

  - CVE-2015-5199: libvdpau: directory traversal in dlopen     (bnc#943968)

  - CVE-2015-5200: libvdpau: vulnerability in trace     functionality (bnc#943969)

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Update to 1.1.1 Security fix for CVE-2015-5198, CVE-2015-5199, CVE-2015-5200

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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.

For Debian 6 'Squeeze', these problems have been fixed in libvdpau version 0.4.1-2+deb6u1. See DSA 3355-1 for information on other Debian releases.

We recommend that you upgrade your libvdpau packages.

Learn more about the Debian Long Term Support (LTS) Project and how to apply these updates at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS/

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

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

libvdpau was updated to use secure_getenv() instead of getenv() for several variables so it can be more safely used in setuid applications.

  - CVE-2015-5198: libvdpau: incorrect check for security     transition (bnc#943967)

  - CVE-2015-5199: libvdpau: directory traversal in dlopen     (bnc#943968)

  - CVE-2015-5200: libvdpau: vulnerability in trace     functionality (bnc#943969)

libvdpau-1.1.1-2.fc21 - Backport current patches - Switch to new upstream git repository on freedesktop.org ---- Update to 1.1.1 Security fix for CVE-2015-5198, CVE-2015-5199, CVE-2015-5200

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ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
85898	Debian DSA-3355-1 : libvdpau - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	9/11/2015	1/11/2021	high
86803	SUSE SLED11 Security Update : libvdpau (SUSE-SU-2015:1925-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	11/9/2015	1/6/2021	high
86128	Fedora 22 : libvdpau-1.1.1-1.fc22 (2015-14851)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	9/25/2015	1/11/2021	high
86752	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : libvdpau (SUSE-SU-2015:1892-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	11/5/2015	1/6/2021	high
85897	Debian DLA-306-1 : libvdpau security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	9/11/2015	1/11/2021	high
85797	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : libvdpau vulnerabilities (USN-2729-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	9/4/2015	10/20/2023	critical
85828	Fedora 23 : libvdpau-1.1.1-1.fc23 (2015-14850)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	9/8/2015	1/11/2021	high
85926	openSUSE Security Update : libvdpau (openSUSE-2015-576)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	9/14/2015	1/19/2021	high
89219	Fedora 21 : libvdpau-1.1.1-2.fc21 (2015-3ca3f2138b)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	3/4/2016	1/11/2021	high

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