CVE-2026-88053
Description
Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. In version 5.5.3 and earlier, Classify::ReadIntTemplates in src/classify/intproto.cpp reads NumClassPruners, NumClasses, and NumProtoSets from the TESSDATA_INTTEMP component of a crafted .traineddata file and uses those values as loop bounds without validating them against MAX_NUM_CLASS_PRUNERS, MAX_NUM_CLASSES, and MAX_NUM_PROTO_SETS. The loops store heap pointers into fixed-capacity ClassPruners and ProtoSets arrays in INT_TEMPLATES_STRUCT and INT_CLASS_STRUCT, so an oversized count causes heap out-of-bounds pointer writes during legacy-classifier initialization before OCR begins, resulting in heap corruption, a crash, or potentially controlled corruption. No fixed release is available as of this review.
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Affected products
5- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/tesseract-ocr&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0pkg:rpm/opensuse/tesseract-ocr&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweed
< 5.5.3-bp160.2.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 5.5.3-bp160.2.1
- (no CPE)range: < 5.5.3-2.1
Patches
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References
2- github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/8b0574680f3b22f246ade6a4c8e3029104255c63nvdPatch
- github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/security/advisories/GHSA-rphx-x795-5qjvnvdExploitMitigationVendor Advisory
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