Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-1898: Ffmpeg stealing local files with HLS+concat CVE-2016-1897 and CVE-2016-1898
4
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
01/14/2016
07/25/2018
08/30/2017
10/30/2017
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.
Solution(s)
- alpine-linux-upgrade-ffmpeg
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