CVE-2016-1898

Description

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://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/772447

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201705-08

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-09

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2944-1

http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.529036

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034932

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/80501

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/14/1

http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3506

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00034.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3