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

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Synopsis
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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
------------- ------------ ------------
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
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[ 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).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
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