CVE-2017-12604

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-787

Description

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 has an out-of-bounds write error in the FillUniColor function in utils.cpp when reading an image file by using cv::imread.

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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