CVE-2017-12601: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Opencv Opencv: up to and including 3.3.0

Published 2017-08-07. Last modified 2026-06-17.