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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 202401-28

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                                       https://security.gentoo.org/  

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

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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
the GNU Public License. It converts scanned images of text back to text
files.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected

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

Description

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

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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

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
[email protected] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2024 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

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