Description
An issue in the Leptonica linked library (v1.79.0) allows attackers to cause an arithmetic exception leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) via a crafted JPEG file.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/f062b42c0ea8dddebdc6a152fd16152de215d614
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/3498
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00018.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0107
EPSS Percentile
60.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-369
Status
published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux
10.0
leptonica/leptonica
< 1.80.0
tesseract_project/tesseract
5.0.0 alpha-20210401
Published
Sep 09, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026