Bug 2132556 (CVE-2022-38266)

Summary:	CVE-2022-38266 leptonica: arithmetic exception leads to denial of service
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Dhananjay Arunesh <darunesh>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Nobody <nobody>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	dchen, jkucera, manisandro
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Doc Text:	A vulnerability was found in the Leptonica linked library in Tesseract. A divide by zero in the pixBlockconvGray function causes an arithmetic exception, leading to a denial of service.	Story Points:	---
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Bug Depends On:	2132557, 2132568, 2132569
Bug Blocks:	2126060

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2022-10-06 07:20:46 UTC

An issue in the Leptonica linked library (v1.79.0) in Tesseract v5.0.0 allows attackers to cause an arithmetic exception leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted JPEG file.

References:
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/3498

Comment 1 Dhananjay Arunesh 2022-10-06 07:21:11 UTC

Created mingw-leptonica tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-35 [bug 2132557]