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Fedora 25: 2017-340718eb7b Critical: Sane-Backends Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey March 26, 2017
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An important security notice regarding a critical flaw in sane-backends that poses a risk of exposing server memory. Kindly verify for recent patches.
CVE-2017-6318 sane-backends: SANE_NET_CONTROL_OPTION response packet may contain memory contents of the server [fedora-all]

Summary

Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) is a universal scanner interface. The

SANE application programming interface (API) provides standardized

access to any raster image scanner hardware (flatbed scanner,

hand-held scanner, video and still cameras, frame-grabbers, etc.).

Update Information:

CVE-2017-6318 sane-backends: SANE_NET_CONTROL_OPTION response packet may contain memory contents of the server [fedora-all]

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Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1428886 - CVE-2017-6318 sane-backends: SANE_NET_CONTROL_OPTION response packet may contain memory contents of the server [fedora-all] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1428886

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade sane-backends' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Name: sane-backends
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 1.0.25
Release: 7.fc25
URL: http://www.sane-project.org
Summary: Scanner access software

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