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Fedora 21: 2015-11-01 Moderate: Libvdpau DoS Issues Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey November 1, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Keep up to date with Fedora 21's essential update for libvdpau, which includes security patches that rectify several vulnerabilities.
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...

Summary

VDPAU is the Video Decode and Presentation API for UNIX. It provides an

interface to video decode acceleration and presentation hardware present in

modern GPUs.

Update Information:

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

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update Fedora DoS security fix patch libvdpau

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1253827 - CVE-2015-5200 libvdpau vulnerability in trace functionality https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253827 [ 2 ] Bug #1253826 - CVE-2015-5199 libvdpau directory traversal in dlopen https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253826 [ 3 ] Bug #1253824 - CVE-2015-5198 libvdpau incorrect check for security transition https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1253824

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update libvdpau' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

Name: libvdpau
Product: Fedora 21
Version: 1.1.1
Release: 2.fc21
URL:
Summary: Wrapper library for the Video Decode and Presentation API

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Fedora DoS security fix patch libvdpau

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