NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting sane-backends-devel package, versions <1.0.31-6.3.2
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-SLES151-SANEBACKENDSDEVEL-2698712
- published 14 Apr 2022
- disclosed 28 Oct 2020
Introduced: 28 Oct 2020
CVE-2020-12866 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade SLES:15.1 sane-backends-devel to version 1.0.31-6.3.2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream sane-backends-devel package and not the sane-backends-devel package as distributed by SLES.
See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12866.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/1172524
- https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-075-libsane
- https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/sane-announce/2020/000041.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4470-1/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00003.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00079.html
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