Out-of-bounds Read Affecting opencv/opencv package, versions [,3.3.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENCVOPENCV-2369584
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Aug 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-12598  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade opencv/opencv to version 3.3.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 has an out-of-bounds read error in the cv::RBaseStream::readBlock function in modules/imgcodecs/src/bitstrm.cpp when reading an image file by using cv::imread, as demonstrated by the 8-opencv-invalid-read-fread test case.

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