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CVE-2019-15939

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-09-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-369

Description

An issue was discovered in OpenCV 4.1.0. There is a divide-by-zero error in cv::HOGDescriptor::getDescriptorSize in modules/objdetect/src/hog.cpp.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0
• OpenCV 3.0.0: through 4.1.0
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00025.html
• https://github.com/OpenCV/opencv/issues/15287
• https://github.com/opencv/opencv/pull/15382
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00028.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-12/msg00025.html
• https://github.com/OpenCV/opencv/issues/15287
• https://github.com/opencv/opencv/pull/15382
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00028.html

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