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Release tesseract-5.3.4-7.el10_2 ALSA-2026:67830

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This is a release notification for a security update to tesseract. The issue is informational and does not require code changes. To verify the update, check the AlmaLinux package repository for the listed tesseract packages and confirm the version numbers match. The work is done when the release note is properly documented.

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Description

tesseract security update
Severity: Important
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.

Affected packages:
tesseract-5.3.4-7.el10_2.x86_64
tesseract-5.3.4-7.el10_2.s390x
tesseract-5.3.4-7.el10_2.ppc64le
tesseract-5.3.4-7.el10_2.aarch64
tesseract-devel-5.3.4-7.el10_2.x86_64
tesseract-devel-5.3.4-7.el10_2.ppc64le
tesseract-devel-5.3.4-7.el10_2.aarch64
tesseract-devel-5.3.4-7.el10_2.s390x
tesseract-5.3.4-7.el10_2.x86_64_v2
tesseract-devel-5.3.4-7.el10_2.x86_64_v2

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