Resource management error in SANE Backends - CVE-2020-12867

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Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU28095

Resource management error in SANE Backends - CVE-2020-12867

Published: May 20, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU28095
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-12867
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to improper memory management issues within epson2 component. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

SANE Backends
sane (Alpine package)
sane-backends (Red Hat package)
sane-backends
sane-backends-debuginfo
sane-backends-debugsource
sane-backends-devel
sane-backends-libs
sane-backends-drivers-cameras
sane-backends-drivers-scanners
sane-backends-help
mingw-sane-backends
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Slackware Linux
Opensuse
openEuler
Fedora

How to mitigate CVE-2020-12867

Install updates from vendor's website.

SANE Backends - update to 1.0.30
sane (Alpine package) - update to 1.0.31-r0
sane-backends (Red Hat package) - update to 1.0.27-22.el8
sane-backends - update to 1.0.28-9
sane-backends-debuginfo - update to 1.0.28-9
sane-backends-debugsource - update to 1.0.28-9
sane-backends-devel - update to 1.0.28-9
sane-backends-libs - update to 1.0.28-9
sane-backends-drivers-cameras - update to 1.0.28-9
sane-backends-drivers-scanners - update to 1.0.28-9
sane-backends-help - update to 1.0.28-9
mingw-sane-backends - update to 1.0.30-1.fc32

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