Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU38359

Out-of-bounds write in OpenCV and Debian Linux - CVE-2017-14136

Published: September 5, 2017 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU38359

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2017-14136

CWE-ID: CWE-787

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) 3.3 has an out-of-bounds write error in the function FillColorRow1 in utils.cpp when reading an image file by using cv::imread. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-12597.

Affected software

OpenCV
Debian Linux

How to mitigate CVE-2017-14136

Install update from vendor's website.

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