Debian DSA-3355-1: libvdpau Security Update for Local Privilege Escalation
debian
September 10, 2015
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 ad...
Summary
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), these problems have been fixed
in version 0.4.1-7+deb7u1.
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 0.8-3+deb8u1.
For the testing distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 1.1.1-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 1.1.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libvdpau packages.
Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/
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Package: libvdpau
CVE ID: CVE-2015-5198 CVE-2015-5199 CVE-2015-5200
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