Reachable Assertion Affecting opencv package, versions <3.2.0+dfsg-6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.38% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-OPENCV-11763070
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed8 Jan 2018

Introduced: 8 Jan 2018

CVE-2018-5269  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-617  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:14 opencv to version 3.2.0+dfsg-6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream opencv package and not the opencv package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1