CVE-2017-12601 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in OpenCV

What is CVE-2017-12601?

CVE-2017-12601 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 7 Aug 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-120

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-12601?

6 open source packages ship an affected version, including opencv-contrib-python and opencv-python. It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Opencv Opencv.

How do I fix CVE-2017-12601?

Upgrade opencv-contrib-python to 3.3.1.11 or later.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2017-12601 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-12601 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Debian Debian Linux

• CVE-2015-3306 ProFTPD Improper Access Control Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2025-49113 RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data Exploited Critical 9.9
• CVE-2026-24061 GNU InetUtils Argument Injection Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-39682 Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-9680 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.8

All Debian Debian Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-12601, GHSA-w96g-3p64-63wr, PYSEC-2026-2831, PYSEC-2026-716, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-12601.