CVE-2020-12861

Published: 24 June 2020

A heap buffer overflow in SANE Backends before 1.0.30 allows a malicious device connected to the same local network as the victim to execute arbitrary code, aka GHSL-2020-080.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
sane-backends Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (1.0.27-1~experimental3ubuntu2.3)
	eoan	Ignored (end of life)
	focal	Released (1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (1.0.30)
	xenial	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	Patches: upstream: https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/commit/30b1831a28f24ab2921b9f717c66d37f02bb81cc

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8
Attack vector	Adjacent
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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