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Fedora 23: 2015-14850 Moderate: libvdpau DoS Issue and Fix

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Calendar Grey September 4, 2015
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Version 1.1.1 for libvdpau released, tackling various security vulnerabilities. Use yum for enhanced performance and protection.
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 denial of service Fedora DoS security fix software improvement 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 .

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Name: libvdpau
Product: Fedora 23
Version: 1.1.1
Release: 1.fc23
URL: https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/VDPAU/?__goaway_challenge=meta-refresh&__goaway_id=5782895683af732fa072cd835f7d8fc3
Summary: Wrapper library for the Video Decode and Presentation API

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service Fedora DoS security fix software improvement libvdpau

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