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CVE-2022-38266 json

An issue in the Leptonica linked library (v1.79.0) allows attackers to cause an arithmetic exception leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) v…

published 4y ago modified last mo. also EUVD-2022-40858 , JLSEC-2026-210

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • julia Leptonica_jll 1.81.1+0
  • leptonica leptonica 1.80.0
  • leptonlib Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.82.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-38266

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red hat product security vex CVE-2022-38266 updated cvss 5.5

leptonica: arithmetic exception leads to denial of service

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 leptonica Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 leptonica
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.56% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/issues/3498 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia Leptonica_jll
<1.81.1+0
1.81.1+0

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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