CVE-2016-1517 Improper Input Validation in OpenCV

What is CVE-2016-1517?

CVE-2016-1517 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in OpenCV 3.0.0, published on 10 Apr 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

OpenCV 3.0.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segfault) via vectors involving corrupt chunks.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-1517?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including opencv-contrib-python and opencv-python. It affects 1 product.

Products include Opencv Opencv.

How do I fix CVE-2016-1517?

Upgrade opencv-contrib-python to 3.3.1.11 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-1517 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-1517 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in OpenCV 3.0.0

• CVE-2019-5063 Out-of-bounds Write in OpenCV High 8.8
• CVE-2019-5064 Out-of-bounds Write in OpenCV High 8.8
• CVE-2019-14491 Out-of-bounds Read in OpenCV High 8.2
• CVE-2019-14492 Out-of-bounds Read and Out-of-bounds Write in OpenCV High 7.5
• CVE-2018-7712 Denial of service in n/a High 7.5

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-1517, GHSA-fffj-9qwg-qmh5, PYSEC-2026-2817, PYSEC-2026-708, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-1517.