CVE-2019-16249 Out-of-bounds Read in OpenCV

What is CVE-2019-16249?

CVE-2019-16249 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 11 Sep 2019. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

OpenCV 4.1.1 has an out-of-bounds read in hal_baseline::v_load in core/hal/intrin_sse.hpp when called from computeSSDMeanNorm in modules/video/src/dis_flow.cpp.

Weakness: CWE-125

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-16249?

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

Products include Opencv Opencv.

How do I fix CVE-2019-16249?

Upgrade opencv-contrib-python to 4.1.2.30 or later.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2019-16249 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-16249 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-x3rm-644h-67m8, PYSEC-2026-2803, PYSEC-2026-2833, PYSEC-2026-2842, PYSEC-2026-726, UBUNTU-CVE-2019-16249.