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Debian 7: DLA-940-1 Critical: Sane-Backends Memory Exposure

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2017
Scroller Debian Lts
An important patch for the sane-backends package on Debian 7 to address vulnerabilities related to sensitive data leaks.
It was discovered that there was an issue in sane-backends, an API library for scanners
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Summary

For Debian 7 "Wheezy", this issue has been fixed in sane-backends version
1.0.22-7.4+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your sane-backends packages.


Regards,

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Package: sane-backends
Version: 1.0.22-7.4+deb7u1
CVE ID: CVE-2017-6318
Debian Bug: #854804

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