CVE-2026-88054

NameCVE-2026-88054
DescriptionTesseract is an open source OCR engine. In version 5.5.3 and earlier, Plumbing::DeSerialize in src/lstm/plumbing.cpp rejects excessively large network stacks but accepts a zero-length stack for NT_SERIES, NT_PARALLEL, or NT_REVERSED layers in a crafted .traineddata model. During LSTMRecognizer initialization in src/lstm/lstmrecognizer.cpp, CacheXScaleFactor(XScaleFactor()) reaches Series::CacheXScaleFactor in src/lstm/series.cpp, which dereferences stack_[0] on the empty vector and invokes a virtual method through an invalid Network pointer. This causes a deterministic crash and denial of service at model load. No fixed release is available as of this review.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
tesseract (PTS)bookworm5.3.0-2vulnerable
trixie5.5.0-1vulnerable
forky, sid5.5.0-1.1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
tesseractsource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/security/advisories/GHSA-f6h7-cqr4-6fx4
Fixed by: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/552771236b0d80cbdb0c7dd856120fa21a4672e5

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