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

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.29% (69th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high
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Red Hat
7 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-OPENCVPYTHON-1731352
  • published 13 Oct 2021
  • disclosed 12 Oct 2021
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 12 Oct 2021

CVE-2017-12601 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-120 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade opencv-python to version 3.3.1.11 or higher.

Overview

opencv-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.

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