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CVE-2026-88052 (GCVE-0-2026-88052)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-10 17:38 – Updated: 2026-09-10 17:38
VLAI
Title
Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write in UNICHARSET::load_via_fgets via count/insert desynchronization
Summary
Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. In version 5.5.3 and earlier, UNICHARSET::load_via_fgets in src/ccutil/unicharset.cpp trusts the declared unichar count as a loop bound and uses id as an unchecked index into the unichars vector. unichar_insert_backwards_compatible can leave the vector unchanged for an empty, duplicate, or already-encodable representation, causing id to become larger than unichars.size(). Subsequent set_* calls and the write to unichars[id].properties.enabled then write UNICHAR_PROPERTIES beyond the vector during initialization in both the default LSTM and legacy engines, causing heap corruption, a crash, or potentially controlled corruption. No fixed release is available as of this review.
CWE
  • CWE-129 - Improper Validation of Array Index
  • CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
tesseract-ocr tesseract Affected: <= 5.5.3
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