Sane Backend up to 1.0.29 uninitialized resource

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Sane Backend up to 1.0.29. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to uninitialized resource. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2020-12864. The attack requires being on the local network. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability was found in Sane Backend up to 1.0.29. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uninitialized resource vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-908. The product uses or accesses a resource that has not been initialized. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

An out-of-bounds read in SANE Backends before 1.0.30 may allow a malicious device connected to the same local network as the victim to read important information, such as the ASLR offsets of the program, aka GHSL-2020-081.

The weakness was released 06/24/2020 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at alioth-lists.debian.net. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2020-12864 since 05/14/2020. Access to the local network is required for this attack. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.0.30 eliminates this vulnerability.

Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-155910, VDB-157208, VDB-157209 and VDB-157210. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• Sane

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• Backend

Version

• 1.0.0
• 1.0.1
• 1.0.2
• 1.0.3
• 1.0.4
• 1.0.5
• 1.0.6
• 1.0.7
• 1.0.8
• 1.0.9
• 1.0.10
• 1.0.11
• 1.0.12
• 1.0.13
• 1.0.14
• 1.0.15
• 1.0.16
• 1.0.17
• 1.0.18
• 1.0.19
• 1.0.20
• 1.0.21
• 1.0.22
• 1.0.23
• 1.0.24
• 1.0.25
• 1.0.26
• 1.0.27
• 1.0.28
• 1.0.29

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