Out-of-bounds Read Affecting tesseract package, versions <4.1.1-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1
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- published29 Sept 2026
- disclosed11 Aug 2026
Introduced: 11 Aug 2026
CVE-2026-73067 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:22.04 tesseract to version 4.1.1-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 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:22.04 relevant fixed versions and status.
Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. Prior to 5.5.3, a crafted .traineddata model loaded through TessBaseAPI::Init can cause SquishedDawg::read_squished_dawg in src/dict/dawg.cpp to accept an unterminated forward-edge run, after which SquishedDawg::Load calls num_forward_edges(0) and last_edge in src/dict/dawg.h reads beyond edges_, causing a heap out-of-bounds read and process crash before image processing. This issue is fixed in version 5.5.3.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2026-73067
- https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/55287a94b8044c05ce3fd10f5aca6ebbd238e518
- https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/82727cc11c34eaf1249af002d69f6bbae70993b9
- https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/4580
- https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/pull/4581
- https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/5.5.3
- https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/security/advisories/GHSA-x3vq-7rr7-5x3h