UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1898

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1898

    Published: 14 Jan 2016Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2016-1898
    Aliases:
    USN-2944-1

    Summary:

    Details: FFmpeg 2.x allows remote attackers to conduct cross-origin attacks and read arbitrary files by using the subfile protocol in an HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) M3U8 file, leading to an external HTTP request in which the URL string contains an arbitrary line of a local file.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-1898, http://habrahabr.ru/company/mailru/blog/274855, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2944-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1898

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: libav

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libav@6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -6:9.20-0ubuntu0.14.04.1+esm1

    Affected versions

    6:0.8.7-1ubuntu2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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