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Fedora 22: FEDORA-2015-14851 Critical: Libvdpau Media Flaw

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Calendar Grey September 24, 2015
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Fedora 22 has issued a security patch for libvdpau addressing severe vulnerabilities in video playback. Ensure you update immediately.
Update to 1.1.1 Security fix for CVE-2015-5198, CVE-2015-5199, CVE-2015-5200

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:

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

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Topics Covered

security advisory fedora critical fix libvdpau media acceleration

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 .

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Name: libvdpau
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 1.1.1
Release: 1.fc22
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Summary: Wrapper library for the Video Decode and Presentation API

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security advisory fedora critical fix libvdpau media acceleration

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