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openSUSE 16: libtesseract5 / libtesseract5-x86-64-v3 / tesseract-ocr / etc (openSUSE-RU-2026:22002-1)

🗓️ 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00Reported by TenableType 
nessus
 nessus
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Memory issues in tesseract-ocr causing aborts and invalid frees during processing.

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#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
#
# The package checks in this plugin were extracted from
# openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-RU-2026:22002-1. The text itself
# is copyright (C) SUSE.
##

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(362528);
  script_version("1.1");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2026/10/02");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2026-88053");

  script_name(english:"openSUSE 16: libtesseract5 / libtesseract5-x86-64-v3 / tesseract-ocr / etc (openSUSE-RU-2026:22002-1)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote openSUSE 16 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the openSUSE-
RU-2026:22002-1 advisory.

    Changes in tesseract-ocr:

    - Update tesseract-CVE-2026-88053.patch to null the adaptive
      template pointer arrays again and the class pruners as
      upstream does, fixing an abort at exit on every run and
      invalid frees when a corrupt traineddata is rejected
      (boo#1282863)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bugzilla.suse.com/1282863");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-88053");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected packages.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_vector", value:"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss4_threat_vector", value:"CVSS:4.0/E:P");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2026-88053");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2026/09/10");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2026/09/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2026/10/02");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtesseract5");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libtesseract5-x86-64-v3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tesseract-ocr");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tesseract-ocr-common");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:tesseract-ocr-devel");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:16.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2026 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/cpu", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list");

  exit(0);
}


include('rpm.inc');

if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/SuSE/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || os_release =~ "^(SLED|SLES)") audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'openSUSE');
var _os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "^SUSE([\d.]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(_os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'openSUSE');
_os_ver = _os_ver[1];
if (os_release !~ "^(SUSE16\.0)$") audit(AUDIT_OS_RELEASE_NOT, 'openSUSE', '16.0', os_release);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);

var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'openSUSE ' + _os_ver, cpu);

var pkgs = [
    {'reference':'libtesseract5-5.5.3-bp160.2.1', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'libtesseract5-x86-64-v3-5.5.3-bp160.2.1', 'cpu':'x86_64', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'tesseract-ocr-5.5.3-bp160.2.1', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'tesseract-ocr-common-5.5.3-bp160.2.1', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
    {'reference':'tesseract-ocr-devel-5.5.3-bp160.2.1', 'release':'SUSE16.0', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];

var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
  var reference = NULL;
  var _release = NULL;
  var _cpu = NULL;
  var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) cpu = package_array['cpu'];
  if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
  if (reference && _release) {
    if (rpm_check(release:_release, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp)) flag++;
  }
}

if (flag)
{
  security_report_v4(
      port       : 0,
      severity   : SECURITY_WARNING,
      extra      : rpm_report_get()
  );
  exit(0);
}
else
{
  var tested = pkg_tests_get();
  if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
  else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'libtesseract5 / libtesseract5-x86-64-v3 / tesseract-ocr / etc');
}

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02 Oct 2026 00:00Current
5.8Medium risk
Vulners AI Score5.8
CVSS 3.17.8
CVSS 48.6
EPSS0.00176
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