Out-of-bounds Write Affecting opencv package, versions [,3.4.12)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.67% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-OPENCV-10077849
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed7 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12603  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade opencv to version 3.4.12 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1