Information Exposure Affecting libav package, versions <6:11.6-1~deb8u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.38% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBAV-404883
  • published15 Jan 2016
  • disclosed15 Jan 2016

Introduced: 15 Jan 2016

CVE-2016-1897  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 libav to version 6:11.6-1~deb8u1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libav package and not the libav package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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