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GOCR: Multiple Vulnerabilities — GLSA 202401-28

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

Affected packages

Package app-text/gocr on all architectures
Affected versions <= 0.52-r1
Unaffected versions

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.

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

Release date
January 24, 2024

Latest revision
January 24, 2024: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
remote

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