NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package sane-backends  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-SANEBACKENDS-570263
  • published23 May 2020
  • disclosed24 Jun 2020

Introduced: 23 May 2020

CVE-2020-12866  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:8.

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.

A NULL pointer dereference in SANE Backends before 1.0.30 allows a malicious device connected to the same local network as the victim to cause a denial of service, GHSL-2020-079.