Medium severity · published Sep 9, 2022
CVE-2022-38266
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
6.5
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 73% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
LE
Leptonica · Leptonica
before 1.80.0 · source: NVD
TO
Tesseract Ocr · Tesseract-ocr
5.0.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38266
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38266
Patch
https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/f062b42c0ea8dddebdc6a152fd16152de215d614
Exploit
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/3498
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00018.html
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01
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