Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting sane-backends package, versions <1.0.31-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (42nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-SANEBACKENDS-570282
  • published23 May 2020
  • disclosed24 Jun 2020

Introduced: 23 May 2020

CVE-2020-12864  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 sane-backends to version 1.0.31-2 or higher.

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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 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-2020-081.

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