CVE-2026-88054

libtesseract4: Tesseract is an open source OCR engine

CVE-2026-88054 is fixed in 19 products on 1 platform, first by libtesseract5 5.5.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, released September 10, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: Routine.

Routine
CVSS
n/a
Medium
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0015
4th percentile

Tesseract 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.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
libtesseract4 · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 4.00~git2288-10f4998a-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 libtesseract4 4.00~git2288-10f4998a-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Oct 7, 2026
libtesseract4 · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 4.1.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 libtesseract4 4.1.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Oct 7, 2026
libtesseract4 · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 4.1.1-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 libtesseract4 4.1.1-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Oct 7, 2026
libtesseract5 · Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) 5.3.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 libtesseract5 5.3.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Oct 7, 2026
libtesseract5 · Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (resolute) 5.5.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 libtesseract5 5.5.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Sep 10, 2026
mingw32-tesseract · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
mingw32-tesseract-debuginfo · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
mingw32-tesseract-tools · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
mingw64-tesseract · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
mingw64-tesseract-debuginfo · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
mingw64-tesseract-tools · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
tesseract · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
tesseract-common · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
tesseract-debuginfo · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
tesseract-debugsource · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
tesseract-devel · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
tesseract-libs · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
tesseract-libs-debuginfo · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
tesseract-ocr · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 4.00~git2288-10f4998a-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 tesseract-ocr 4.00~git2288-10f4998a-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Oct 7, 2026
tesseract-ocr · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 4.1.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 tesseract-ocr 4.1.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Oct 7, 2026
tesseract-ocr · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 4.1.1-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 tesseract-ocr 4.1.1-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Oct 7, 2026
tesseract-ocr · Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) 5.3.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 tesseract-ocr 5.3.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Oct 7, 2026
tesseract-ocr · Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (resolute) 5.5.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 tesseract-ocr 5.5.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Sep 10, 2026
tesseract-ocr · opensuse-leap 16.0 5.5.3-bp160.1.1 OPENSUSE-SU-2026:21957-1 Sep 24, 2026
tesseract-ocr-all · Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (bionic) 4.00~git2288-10f4998a-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 tesseract-ocr-all 4.00~git2288-10f4998a-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Oct 7, 2026
tesseract-ocr-all · Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (focal) 4.1.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 tesseract-ocr-all 4.1.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1 Oct 7, 2026
tesseract-ocr-all · Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS (jammy) 4.1.1-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 tesseract-ocr-all 4.1.1-2.1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Oct 7, 2026
tesseract-ocr-all · Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS (noble) 5.3.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 tesseract-ocr-all 5.3.4-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Oct 7, 2026
tesseract-ocr-all · Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS (resolute) 5.5.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 tesseract-ocr-all 5.5.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1 Sep 10, 2026
tesseract-tools · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026
tesseract-tools-debuginfo · Fedora 43 5.5.3-2.fc43 FEDORA-2026-4585ABA520 Sep 21, 2026

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