DEBIAN-CVE-2026-88050

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-88050
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-88050.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-88050
Upstream
Published
2026-09-10T17:17:09Z
Modified
2026-09-15T09:03:21Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / tesseract

Package

Name
tesseract
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tesseract?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.3.0-2
5.3.3-1
5.3.4-1
5.3.4-1.1
5.3.4-1.2
5.3.4-1.3
5.3.4-1.4
5.5.0-1
5.5.0-1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-88050.json"

Debian:13 / tesseract

Package

Name
tesseract
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tesseract?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.5.0-1
5.5.0-1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-88050.json"

Debian:14 / tesseract

Package

Name
tesseract
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tesseract?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.5.0-1
5.5.0-1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-88050.json"