RHSA-2026:69111 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: tesseract security update

Loading…

Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · September 21, 2026

Updated · October 31, 2026

Topic

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.

Description

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2026:69111 — Red Hat Security Advisory: tesseract security update | PulseLinux