Out-of-bounds Write Affecting tesseract package, versions <4.00~git2288-10f4998a-2ubuntu0.1~esm1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-TESSERACT-19685085
  • published29 Sept 2026
  • disclosed10 Sept 2026

Introduced: 10 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-88050  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 tesseract to version 4.00git2288-10f4998a-2ubuntu0.1esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream tesseract package and not the tesseract package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. In version 5.5.3 and earlier, RecodedCharID::DeSerialize in src/ccutil/unicharcompress.h validates length_ but accepts negative code_ values from a crafted .traineddata recoder component. UnicharCompress::ComputeCodeRange in src/ccutil/unicharcompress.cpp can consequently produce code_range_ equal to zero, after which SetupDecoder indexes is_valid_start_ with the negative code on a size-zero vector. The resulting out-of-bounds bit write uses a large wrapped index and reliably causes a wild-address crash or allocation failure on the default LSTM engine. No fixed release is available as of this review.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1