UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12861

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12861

    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12861

    Published: 24 Jun 2020Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-12861
    Aliases:
    USN-4470-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-12861, https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/releases/1.0.30, https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/merge_requests/500, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4470-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12861

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: sane-backends

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~experimental3ubuntu2.3?arch=source&distro=bionic

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1.0.27-1~experimental3ubuntu2.3

    Affected versions

    1.0.27-1~experimental2ubuntu1
    1.0.27-1~experimental2ubuntu2
    1.0.27-1~experimental2ubuntu2.1
    1.0.27-1~experimental3ubuntu1
    1.0.27-1~experimental3ubuntu2
    1.0.27-1~experimental3ubuntu2.1
    1.0.27-1~experimental3ubuntu2.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-12861 | CVE-DB