CVE-2017-17760 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in OpenCV

What is CVE-2017-17760?

CVE-2017-17760 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 29 Dec 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 3.3.1 has a Buffer Overflow in the cv::PxMDecoder::readData function in grfmt_pxm.cpp, because an incorrect size value is used.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-17760?

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-2017-17760?

Upgrade opencv-contrib-python to 3.4.0.12 or later.

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

Is CVE-2017-17760 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-17760 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17760, GHSA-jcxv-2j3h-mg59, PYSEC-2026-2823, PYSEC-2026-711, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17760.