Name: CVE-2019-14491: Out-of-bounds Read
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2019-08-01T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2019-14491, CWE-125, CVSS 8.2, EPSS 0.00308

An issue was discovered in OpenCV before 3.4.7 and 4.x before 4.1.1. There is an out of bounds read in the function cv::predictOrdered<cv::HaarEvaluator> in modules/objdetect/src/cascadedetect.hpp, which leads to denial of service.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 8.2
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade opencv	Jul 30, 2024	Aug 1, 2019
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Aug 1, 2019
Suse	—	Upgrade opencv-develUpgrade opencv-docUpgrade opencvUpgrade libopencv3_3Upgrade python2-opencvUpgrade python3-opencv	Dec 12, 2019	Aug 1, 2019
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade libopencv-ts2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-imgproc2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-videostab2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-core2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-viz3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-stitching2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-flann2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-calib3d2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-highgui3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-highgui2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-objdetect2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-video2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-stitching2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-features2d3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-objdetect3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-calib3d2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv3.2-jni (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-imgcodecs3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-legacy2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-features2d2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-ml2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-gpu2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-ocl2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-videoio3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-stitching3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-core3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-highgui2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-shape3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-imgproc2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-ts2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-ml2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-ml3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-video3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-features2d2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-video2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-photo2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-gpu2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-videostab3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-contrib2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-imgproc3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-objdetect2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-ocl2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-photo2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-contrib3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv2.4-jni (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-superres3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-core2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-dev (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-superres2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-flann2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-photo3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-legacy2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-calib3d3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-videostab2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-flann3.2 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-contrib2.4 (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libopencv-superres2.4v5 (Ubuntu Pro)	Mar 22, 2023	Aug 1, 2019

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