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CVE-2020-12861

Date: June 23, 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.

Language: C

Severity Score

8.8

Related Resources (12)

Url: https://usn.ubuntu.com/4470-1/

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2020-12861

Url: https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/sane-announce/2020/000041.html

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12861

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12861

Url: http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/172841/SANE-Backends-Memory-Corruption-Code-Execution.html

Url: https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-12861

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00079.html

Url: https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-075-libsane

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00003.html

Url: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-12861

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2020-12861

Severity Score

8.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	8.8
Attack Vector (AV):	ADJACENT_NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.9
Access Vector (AV):	ADJACENT
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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