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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-17760

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.

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CVE-2017-17760

core-osv · Original source

Published 29 Dec 2017, 18:29 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2017-17760
Complete source record
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