ALSA-2026:95086: Important: tesseract security update

Published Nov 4, 2026
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Updated

A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and 1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005.

Security Fix(es):

tesseract: Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write/read leading to information disclosure via crafted data (CVE-2026-88048) tesseract: Tesseract: Stack buffer overflow via crafted .traineddata file (CVE-2026-88047) tesseract: Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write allows arbitrary code execution or denial of service (CVE-2026-88049) tesseract: Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write via crafted .traineddata model (CVE-2026-88051) tesseract: Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write leads to heap corruption via crafted data file (CVE-2026-88053) tesseract: Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write can lead to arbitrary code execution (CVE-2026-88052)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Affected Software

1 affected componentFixes available
almalinux/tesseract-devel<4.1.1-11.el9_8
4.1.1-11.el9_8

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade almalinux/tesseract-devel to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 4.1.1-11.el9_8

Event History

Nov 4, 2026
Advisory Published
via OSV·12:00 AM
Data Sourced
via OSV·12:00 AM
DescriptionAffected Software

Child vulnerabilities

Contains the following vulnerabilities.

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