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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.

Published: Sep 9, 2022
Updated: Nov 16, 2025
CVE: CVE-2022-38266
Severity: Medium
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Medium
Score: 6.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

CWE-369

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
tesseract_project / tesseract	5.0.0-alpha-20210401	5.0.0-alpha-20210401.x
leptonica / leptonica	-	1.80.0
debian / debian_linux	10.0	10.0.x

https://github.com/DanBloomberg/leptonica/commit/f062b42c0ea8dddebdc6a152fd16152de215d614
https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/3498
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/12/msg00018.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-01

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