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CVE-2017-12598

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 has an out-of-bounds read error in the cv::RBaseStream::readBlock function in modules/imgcodecs/src/bitstrm.cpp when reading an image file by using cv::imread, as demonstrated by the 8-opencv-invalid-read-fread test case.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• OpenCV 3.0.0: through 3.3.0

References

• https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/9309
• https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/blob/master/opencv.md
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00030.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00028.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-02
• https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/9309
• https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/blob/master/opencv.md
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00030.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00028.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-02

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