Buffer Overflow Affecting opencv-contrib-python package, versions [,3.3.1.11)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (65th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-OPENCVCONTRIBPYTHON-1731351
  • published13 Oct 2021
  • disclosed12 Oct 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Oct 2021

CVE-2017-12601  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-120  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade opencv-contrib-python to version 3.3.1.11 or higher.

Overview

opencv-contrib-python is a Wrapper package for OpenCV python bindings.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow via 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.

CVSS Scores

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