Red Hat alert RHSA-2026:69111-01 (tesseract)

An update for tesseract is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8
Update Services for SAP Solutions and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.8
Telecommunications Update Service.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

A commercial quality OCR engine originally developed at HP between 1985 and
1995. In 1995, this engine was among the top 3 evaluated by UNLV. It was
open-sourced by HP and UNLV in 2005.

Security Fix(es):

* tesseract: Tesseract: Heap out-of-bounds write via crafted .traineddata
(CVE-2026-73066)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

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