Out-of-bounds read in OpenCV - CVE-2019-16249

 

Out-of-bounds read in OpenCV - CVE-2019-16249

Published: September 12, 2019 / Updated: August 8, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU35495
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-16249
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

OpenCV 4.1.1 has an out-of-bounds read in hal_baseline::v_load in core/hal/intrin_sse.hpp when called from computeSSDMeanNorm in modules/video/src/dis_flow.cpp.


Affected software

OpenCV
Ubuntu
libopencv-contrib4.5d (Ubuntu package)
libopencv-core4.5d (Ubuntu package)
libopencv-dev (Ubuntu package)
libopencv-dnn4.5d (Ubuntu package)
libopencv-flann4.5d (Ubuntu package)
libopencv-imgcodecs4.5d (Ubuntu package)
libopencv-objdetect4.5d (Ubuntu package)
opencv-data (Ubuntu package)
libopencv-core3.2 (Ubuntu package)

How to mitigate CVE-2019-16249

Install update from vendor's website.

libopencv-contrib4.5d (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
libopencv-core4.5d (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
libopencv-dev (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
libopencv-dnn4.5d (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
libopencv-flann4.5d (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
libopencv-imgcodecs4.5d (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
libopencv-objdetect4.5d (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
opencv-data (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro
libopencv-core3.2 (Ubuntu package) - update to Ubuntu Pro

External References

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