CVE-2026-73066: Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write in LSTM Convolve layer via crafted .traineddata
Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. Prior to 5.5.3, a crafted .traineddata LSTM model component loaded through Tesseract's deserializer can cause an unchecked signed integer multiplication in Convolve::DeSerialize in src/lstm/convolve.cpp to wrap the convolution output-channel count, undersizing the forward-pass output buffer while writes use the unwrapped element count and causing a heap out-of-bounds write during OCR recognition. This issue is fixed in version 5.5.3.
Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
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Upgrade
tesseractto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 5.5.3