Sigill / IGLCM

How to compute sliding gray level cooccurrence matrix on an image using the integral image principle (proof of concept).
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Academic research on vulnerable c++ code snippet #1

Open JafarAkhondali opened 5 years ago

JafarAkhondali commented 5 years ago

Dear Cyrille, We are a group of Academic researchers. We are analyzing vulnerable C++ code snippets migrated from StackOverflow to GitHub. Our research will be published in Academic publications and will not be used in any Industrial application. We noted a vulnerable code snippet in your repository that was most likely copied from Stack Overflow. The vulnerability exists in this source code file of your repository.

Please verify our report here with regards to the above vulnerability to assist you. Link to report with four questions for you related to the vulnerability (should not take more than 5 minutes to answer).

Here is a summary of the vulnerable code snippet:

Description:

If image doesn't exist or for any reason Opencv was not able to read it's data, program will crash. Always make sure to check return value of functions.

Mitigation:

if(! image.data ){ // Check for invalid input
cout <<  "Could not open or find the image" << std::endl ;
return -1;
}

Please verify our report here with regards to the above vulnerability to assist you. Link to report with four questions for you related to the vulnerability (should not take more than 5 minutes to answer).

Sincerely yours, Morteza Verdi, Shiraz university, E-mail: m.verdi@shirazu.ac.ir Jafar Akhondali, Shiraz university, E-mail: jafar.akhondali@yahoo.com Ashkan Sami, Shiraz university, E-mail: ashkan.sami@gmail.com Foutse Khomh, Polytechnique Montreal, E-mail: foutse.khomh@polymtl.ca, website: http://www.khomh.net/ Gias Uddin, Polytechnique Montreal, E-mail: gias98@gmail.com, website: https://giasuddin.github.io Alireza Karami motlagh, Shahid Chamran University, E-mail: alireza.karami.m@gmail.com