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Ubuntu: USN-4470-1 (CVE-2020-12861): sane-backends vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4470-1 (CVE-2020-12861): sane-backends vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
05/17/2020
Created
08/27/2020
Added
08/25/2020
Modified
05/01/2023

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libsane
  • ubuntu-upgrade-libsane1

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