Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenCV 3.4.1's validateInputImageSize Function

CVE-2018-7712 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.height <= (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.

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