Bug 2132556 (CVE-2022-38266) - CVE-2022-38266 leptonica: arithmetic exception leads to denial of service
Summary: CVE-2022-38266 leptonica: arithmetic exception leads to denial of service
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-38266
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2132557 2132568 2132569
Blocks: 2126060
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-10-06 07:20 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2023-07-07 08:34 UTC (History)
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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.
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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.

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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]
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