HIGH 8.8
PYSEC-2026-698
Out-of-bounds Read in OpenCV
Details
OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 (corresponding to OpenCV-Python 3.3.0.9) 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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Affected packages
PyPI / opencv-contrib-python
Introduced in:
0 Fixed in: 3.3.1.11 Fix
pip install --upgrade 'opencv-contrib-python>=3.3.1.11' References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12598 [ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/9309 [WEB]
- https://github.com/opencv/opencv/pull/9376 [WEB]
- https://github.com/opencv/opencv-python [PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/opencv/opencv-python/releases/tag/11 [WEB]
- https://github.com/opencv/opencv-python/releases/tag/9 [WEB]
- https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/blob/master/opencv.md [WEB]
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00030.html [WEB]
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00028.html [WEB]
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-02 [WEB]
- https://pypi.org/project/opencv-contrib-python [PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-33h2-69j3-r336 [ADVISORY]