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CVE-2020-12865

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-06-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

A heap buffer overflow in SANE Backends before 1.0.30 may allow a malicious device connected to the same local network as the victim to execute arbitrary code, aka GHSL-2020-084.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 20.04
• Debian Linux: 9.0
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2
• Sane-Project Sane Backends: before 1.0.30 — fixed in 1.0.30

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Sane-Project Sane Backends 1.0.30. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00079.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00003.html
• https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/sane-announce/2020/000041.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00029.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00010.html
• https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2020-075-libsane
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4470-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00079.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-11/msg00003.html
• https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/sane-announce/2020/000041.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00029.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/10/msg00010.html

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