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CVE-2017-12601
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.1% 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-120
Description
OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 has a buffer overflow in the cv::BmpDecoder::readData function in modules/imgcodecs/src/grfmt_bmp.cpp when reading an image file by using cv::imread, as demonstrated by the 4-buf-overflow-readData-memcpy 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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