Bug 2533342 (CVE-2026-54559) - CVE-2026-54559 pocketsphinx: PocketSphinx: Memory corruption via malicious model file loading
Summary: CVE-2026-54559 pocketsphinx: PocketSphinx: Memory corruption via malicious mo...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-54559
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2533597 2533598
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Reported: 2026-09-14 20:21 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-15 06:35 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-14 20:21:22 UTC
PocketSphinx is a small speech recognizer. Prior to 5.1.1, the trie language-model loaders in src/lm/ngram_model_trie.c do not adequately validate boundary conditions in ARPA, DMP, and binary format headers, and the acoustic-model loaders in src/mdef.c and src/util/bio.c use sscanf with unbounded string fields. Loading an invalid, corrupted, or malicious language or acoustic model can therefore cause stack or heap buffer overflows and memory corruption. An attacker who can write to a directory selected by POCKETSPHINX_PATH can replace or add a model file that PocketSphinx later loads; users of PocketSphinx 5prealpha have no backported patch and must migrate to the fixed release. This issue is fixed in version 5.1.1.


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