CVE-2018-5269 - Reachable Assertion

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

In OpenCV 3.3.1, an assertion failure happens in cv::RBaseStream::setPos in modules/imgcodecs/src/bitstrm.cpp because of an incorrect integer cast.

In OpenCV 3.3.1, an assertion failure happens in cv::RBaseStream::setPos in modules/imgcodecs/src/bitstrm.cpp because of an incorrect integer cast.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 5.5. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Demo Examples

Reachable Assertion

CWE-617

In the excerpt below, an AssertionError (an unchecked exception) is thrown if the user hasn't entered an email address in an HTML form.


               
assert email != null;

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2018-01-08 05:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-03 00:03:00

Affected Software

OpenCV 3.3.1

3.3.1

Debian Linux 7.0

7.0

Debian Linux 8.0 (Jessie)

8.0

References

106945

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/10540

Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20180418 [SECURITY] [DLA 1354-1] opencv security update

Third Party Advisory

[debian-lts-announce] 20180722 [SECURITY] [DLA 1438-1] opencv security update

Third Party Advisory

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