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CVSSv2

CVE-2017-18009

Published: 01/01/2018 Updated: 03/10/2019
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

In OpenCV 3.3.1, a heap-based buffer over-read exists in the function cv::HdrDecoder::checkSignature in modules/imgcodecs/src/grfmt_hdr.cpp.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #924884 CVE-2017-18009 Package: src:opencv; Maintainer for src:opencv is Debian Science Team <debian-science-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 22:15:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: fixed-upstream, security, upstream ...

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