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Gentoo: GLSA-202401-28 severe: GOCR multiple issues leading to RCE

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Calendar Grey January 24, 2024
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Significant vulnerabilities in GOCR impacting Gentoo Linux have been discovered, raising substantial security concerns that require immediate response.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GOCR, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GOCR. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo arbitrary code execution multiple issues GOCR

Resolution

Gentoo has discontinued support for GOCR. We recommend that users unmerge it:
# emerge --ask --depclean "app-text/gocr"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2021-33479 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33479 [ 2 ] CVE-2021-33480 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33480 [ 3 ] CVE-2021-33481 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33481

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-28
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: GOCR: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date: January 24, 2024
Bugs: #824290
ID: 202401-28

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Topics Covered

security advisory high severity gentoo arbitrary code execution multiple issues GOCR

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in GOCR, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Background

GOCR is an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program, developed under

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Affected Packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected ------------- ------------ ------------ app-text/gocr <= 0.52-r1 Vulnerable!

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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