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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-15939

medium Nessus Plugin ID 222455

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - 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. (CVE-2019-15939)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-15939

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 222455

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2019_15939.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 7/18/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-15939

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opencv, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:opencv-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:opencv-core, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:opencv-contrib, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-opencv, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:opencv-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:opencv-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opencv-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opencv-contrib, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:python3-opencv, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:opencv-doc, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:opencv, cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opencv-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opencv-devel-docs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opencv-python, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:opencv-core

Required KB Items: Host/OS/identifier, Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/5/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-15939