Input validation error in SANE Backends - CVE-2020-12866

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Input validation error in SANE Backends - CVE-2020-12866

Published: May 20, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU28099
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-12866
CWE-ID: CWE-20
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 insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the epsonds component in SANE Backends. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

SANE Backends
sane (Alpine package)
Slackware Linux
Opensuse

How to mitigate CVE-2020-12866

Install updates from vendor's website.

SANE Backends - update to 1.0.30
sane (Alpine package) - update to 1.0.31-r0

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