Bug 2531779

Summary: CVE-2026-88053 tesseract: Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write leads to heap corruption via crafted data file [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Vladimir Vasilev <vvasilev>
Component: tesseractAssignee: Sandro Mani <manisandro>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: epel-packagers-sig, karlikt, manisandro
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["00eec8ed-a289-489d-86c3-c5b6ed7945d4"]}
Fixed In Version: tesseract-5.5.3-2.fc45 Doc Type: ---
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Description Vladimir Vasilev 2026-09-11 07:41:09 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

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.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-09-21 09:15:57 UTC
FEDORA-2026-e3bf7f4ecb (tesseract-5.5.3-2.fc45) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 45.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-e3bf7f4ecb

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-09-21 09:16:18 UTC
FEDORA-2026-4585aba520 (tesseract-5.5.3-2.fc43) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 43.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-4585aba520

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-09-22 01:35:03 UTC
FEDORA-2026-e3bf7f4ecb has been pushed to the Fedora 45 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-e3bf7f4ecb`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-e3bf7f4ecb

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-09-22 01:56:13 UTC
FEDORA-2026-fc27f09459 has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-fc27f09459`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-fc27f09459

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-09-22 02:20:48 UTC
FEDORA-2026-4585aba520 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-4585aba520`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-4585aba520

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-09-26 00:16:34 UTC
FEDORA-2026-e3bf7f4ecb (tesseract-5.5.3-2.fc45) has been pushed to the Fedora 45 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.