CVE-2016-1897: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 14.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only
• Ffmpeg Ffmpeg: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; version 2.0.5 only; …
• Opensuse Leap: version 42.1 only

Published 2016-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.