CVE-2016-1898 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2016-1898?

CVE-2016-1898 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 15 Jan 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-200

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1898?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Ffmpeg Ffmpeg, Opensuse Leap.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1898?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-1898 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1898 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1898, GHSA-2mw9-cpc8-cf9f, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1898.