DEBIAN-CVE-2026-73067

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-73067
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-73067.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-73067
Upstream
Published
2026-08-11T15:17:38Z
Modified
2026-09-10T08:47:21Z
Severity
  • 6.7 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. Prior to 5.5.3, a crafted .traineddata model loaded through TessBaseAPI::Init can cause SquishedDawg::read_squished_dawg in src/dict/dawg.cpp to accept an unterminated forward-edge run, after which SquishedDawg::Load calls num_forward_edges(0) and last_edge in src/dict/dawg.h reads beyond edges_, causing a heap out-of-bounds read and process crash before image processing. This issue is fixed in version 5.5.3.

References

Affected packages

Debian:12 / tesseract

Package

Name
tesseract
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tesseract?arch=source&distro=bookworm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.3.0-2
5.3.3-1
5.3.4-1
5.3.4-1.1
5.3.4-1.2
5.3.4-1.3
5.3.4-1.4
5.5.0-1
5.5.0-1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-73067.json"

Debian:13 / tesseract

Package

Name
tesseract
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tesseract?arch=source&distro=trixie

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.5.0-1
5.5.0-1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-73067.json"

Debian:14 / tesseract

Package

Name
tesseract
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/tesseract?arch=source&distro=forky

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.5.0-1
5.5.0-1.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-73067.json"