Security advisory

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  "id": "d30d9476f30e339a4a372161993caf4ebe761800c9b25c8fe83fbe2d262dd26a",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-12603",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-12603",
    "summary": "OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) through 3.3 has an invalid write in the cv::RLByteStream::getBytes function in modules/imgcodecs/src/bitstrm.cpp when reading an image file by using cv::imread, as demonstrated by the 2-opencv-heapoverflow-fseek test case.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-12603",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-12603",
        "GHSA-6v6p-p97v-g2p7",
        "PYSEC-2026-2809",
        "PYSEC-2026-701"
      ],
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
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          "versions": [
            "3.3.0-rc",
            "3.3.0-cvsdk",
            "3.2.0-rc",
            "2.2"
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            "3.0.0-rc1",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:47:23.732220595Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/xiaoqx/pocs/blob/master/opencv.md",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00030.html",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/10/msg00028.html",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201712-02",
        "https://github.com/opencv/opencv/issues/9309"
      ],
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            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
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                    "introduced": "8.0"
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                  {
                    "last_affected": "8.0"
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                    "introduced": "9.0"
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 441191,
  "published_at": "2017-08-07T01:29:00.577+00:00"
}