CVE-2015-5199: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in dlopen in libvdpau before 1.1.1 allows local users to gain privileges via the VDPAU_DRIVER environment variable.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 14.04 only; version 15.04 only
• Libvdpau Project Libvdpau: up to and including 1.1.0

Published 2015-09-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.