Summary
A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005.
Security Fix(es):
* tesseract: Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write via crafted .traineddata (CVE-2026-73066)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Fixed packages 1
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Rocky Linux · 9 | tesseract | 0:4.1.1-8.el9_8 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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Medium 6.8
Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write in LSTM Convolve layer via crafted .traineddata
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 conv…