CVE-2020-12866

Publication date 24 June 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
sane-backends	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.0.29-0ubuntu5.1
	19.10 eoan	Ignored end of life
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1.0.27-1~experimental3ubuntu2.3
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
sane-backends	Upstream: 30b1831

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.7 · Medium
Attack vector	Adjacent
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4470-1
sane-backends vulnerabilities
24 August 2020