Information Exposure Affecting sane-backends package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.08% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-SANEBACKENDS-1949960
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed17 May 2020

Introduced: 17 May 2020

CVE-2020-12862  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:8 sane-backends.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sane-backends package and not the sane-backends package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

An out-of-bounds read in SANE Backends before 1.0.30 may allow a malicious device connected to the same local network as the victim to read important information, such as the ASLR offsets of the program, aka GHSL-2020-082.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1