Risk | Medium |
Patch available | YES |
Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
CVE-ID | CVE-2022-38266 |
CWE-ID | CWE-369 |
Exploitation vector | Network |
Public exploit | N/A |
Vulnerable software |
Leptonica Universal components / Libraries / Libraries used by multiple products |
Vendor | DanBloomberg |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU84721
Risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 6.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38266
CWE-ID:
CWE-369 - Divide By Zero
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a divide by zero error within the blocksumLow() function in convolve.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted JPEG image to the application and crash it.
Install updates from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsLeptonica: before 1.81.0
CPE2.3 External linkshttps://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/3498
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/f062b42c0ea8dddebdc6a152fd16152de215d614
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00018.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.