CVE-2018-7713 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2018-7713?

CVE-2018-7713 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 5 Mar 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The validateInputImageSize function in modules/imgcodecs/src/loadsave.cpp in OpenCV 3.4.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (assertion failure) because (size.width <= (1<<20)) may be false. Note: “OpenCV CV_Assert is not an assertion (C-like assert()), it is regular C++ exception which can raised in case of invalid or non-supported parameters.

Weakness: CWE-617

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-7713?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Opencv Opencv.

How do I fix CVE-2018-7713?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-7713 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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-2018-7713 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-7713 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• 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 GHSA-wj8j-vmwr-jqc9, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-7713.