gocr 0.53-20200802 pgm2asc.c measure_pitch stack-based overflow

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in gocr 0.53-20200802. Affected by this issue is the function measure_pitch of the file pgm2asc.c. The manipulation leads to stack-based overflow. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2021-33479. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in gocr 0.53-20200802. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects the function measure_pitch of the file pgm2asc.c. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The weakness was presented 11/17/2021. It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2021-33479 since 05/20/2021. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• gocr

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• 0.53-20200802

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