NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting opencv/opencv package, versions [,4.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.22% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENCVOPENCV-2369592
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed1 Aug 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Aug 2019

CVE-2019-14493  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade opencv/opencv to version 4.1.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. An issue was discovered in OpenCV before 4.1.1. There is a NULL pointer dereference in the function cv::XMLParser::parse at modules/core/src/persistence.cpp.

CVSS Scores

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