CVE-2017-12603

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Published 2021-10-12 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 has an invalid write in the cv::RLByteStream::getBytes function in modules/imgcodecs/src/bitstrm.cpp when reading an image file by using cv::imread, as demonstrated by the 2-opencv-heapoverflow-fseek test case.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 7 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`3.2.0+dfsg-6`
sid	Fixed	`3.2.0+dfsg-6`
forky	Fixed	`3.2.0+dfsg-6`
bullseye	Fixed	`3.2.0+dfsg-6`
bookworm	Fixed	`3.2.0+dfsg-6`
9.0	Affected	—
8.0	Affected	—

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	opencv-python	`<3.3.1.11`	`3.3.1.11`
PyPI	opencv-contrib-python	`<3.3.1.11`	`3.3.1.11`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
opencv	opencv	`{"endIncluding":"3.3.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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