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Debian Jessie DLA-1438-1 Critical: Opencv Buffer Overflow Issue

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Calendar Grey July 22, 2018
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Essential security patches for Debian LTS users regarding opencv have been released to address vulnerabilities related to buffer overflow and integer overflow exploits.
Early versions of opencv have problems while reading data, which might result in either buffer overflows, out-of bounds errors or integer
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Summary

Early versions of opencv have problems while reading data, which might
result in either buffer overflows, out-of bounds errors or integer
overflows.
Further assertion errors might happen due to incorrect integer cast.



For Debian 8 "Jessie", these problems have been fixed in version
2.4.9.1+dfsg-1+deb8u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your opencv packages.

Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS



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Package: opencv
Version: 2.4.9.1+dfsg-1+deb8u2
CVE ID: CVE-2016-1516 CVE-2017-12597 CVE-2017-12598

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