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FKIE_CVE-2026-73066

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-11 15:17 - Updated: 2026-09-09 20:46
Severity
6.8 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Summary
Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. Prior to 5.5.3, a crafted .traineddata LSTM model component loaded through Tesseract's deserializer can cause an unchecked signed integer multiplication in Convolve::DeSerialize in src/lstm/convolve.cpp to wrap the convolution output-channel count, undersizing the forward-pass output buffer while writes use the unwrapped element count and causing a heap out-of-bounds write during OCR recognition. This issue is fixed in version 5.5.3.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/2f4d2f4bf45c363785d7bf1da29b6628f8939a72
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/pull/4588
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/5.5.3
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/security/advisories/GHSA-7j76-5rq5-5jg8
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-09-09T20:46:02.457",
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