CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-14493

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 01, 2019 | Modified: Nov 30, 2021
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Opencv Opencv * 4.1.1 (excluding)
Opencv Ubuntu bionic *
Opencv Ubuntu disco *
Opencv Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Opencv Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Opencv Ubuntu trusty *
Opencv Ubuntu trusty/esm *
Opencv Ubuntu upstream *
Opencv Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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