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Vulnerability details: VCID-4t6y-22xf-3ueq
Vulnerability ID VCID-4t6y-22xf-3ueq
Aliases CVE-2017-12601
GHSA-w96g-3p64-63wr
Summary Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow') OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) has a buffer overflow in 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.
Status Published
Exploitability None
Weighted Severity None
Risk None
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
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Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/9309
https://github.com/opencv/opencv/pull/9376
https://github.com/opencv/opencv-python/releases/tag/11
https://github.com/opencv/opencv-python/releases/tag/9
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
CVE-2017-12601 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12601
GHSA-w96g-3p64-63wr https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-w96g-3p64-63wr
No exploits are available.
There are no known vectors.

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Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-06-02T04:40:11.640644+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/pypi/opencv-python/CVE-2017-12601.yml 38.6.0