CVE-2026-119339
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Summary: Tesseract: Crafted LSTM model (`WeightMatrix` mode byte) triggers `ASSERT_HOST` abort in `WeightMatrix::DeSerializeOld` under `FAST_FLOAT` — Denial of Service
Details: Tesseract is an open source OCR engine. Prior to 5.5.4, WeightMatrix::DeSerialize trusts a mode byte from a traineddata LSTM network and calls WeightMatrix::DeSerializeOld when kDoubleFlag is clear. In default FAST_FLOAT builds, DeSerializeOld invokes ASSERT_HOST instead of returning an error, so loading a crafted model through TessBaseAPI::Init terminates the process and causes denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 5.5.4.
References: https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/releases/tag/5.5.4, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/119xxx/CVE-2026-119339.json, https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/security/advisories/GHSA-h9g4-frjx-6cj3, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-119339, https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/commit/c053424327352b9d5180aa7540c1f9e67c64f27e, https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/pull/4657
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