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[Simon Quigley <tsimonq2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The E-book viewer in calibre before 2.75 allows remote attackers to read
arbitrary files via a crafted epub file with JavaScript.

** Affects: calibre (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: calibre (Ubuntu Trusty)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
         Status: New

** Affects: calibre (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)
         Status: New

** Also affects: calibre (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: calibre (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: calibre (Ubuntu Trusty)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)

** Changed in: calibre (Ubuntu Xenial)
     Assignee: (unassigned) => Simon Quigley (tsimonq2)

** Changed in: calibre (Ubuntu Trusty)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: calibre (Ubuntu Xenial)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: calibre (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

** Changed in: calibre (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

** CVE added: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2016-10187

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Title:
  [CVE] JavaScript in a book can access local files using XMLHttpRequest

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