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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2021-1744 Moderate: SANE NULL Pointer Issue

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Calendar Grey May 18, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
An important security patch for sane-backends on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 resolves a significant NULL pointer vulnerability.
An update for sane-backends is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

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 (for example, flatbed scanners, hand-held scanners, video and still cameras, and frame-grabbers).
Security Fix(es):
* sane-backends: NULL pointer dereference in sanei_epson_net_read function (CVE-2020-12867)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact sane-backends NULL pointer issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12867 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.4_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: sane-backends-1.0.27-22.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: sane-backends-1.0.27-22.el8.aarch64.rpm sane-backends-daemon-1.0.27-22.el8.aarch64.rpm sane-backends-daemon-debuginfo-1.0.27-22.el8.aarch64.rpm sane-backends-debuginfo-1.0.27-22.el8.aarch64.rpm sane-backends-debugsource-1.0.27-22.el8.aarch64.rpm sane-backends-devel-1.0.27-22.el8.aarch64.rpm sane-backends-drivers-cameras-1.0.27-22.el8.aarch64.rpm sane-backends-drivers-cameras-debuginfo-1.0.27-22.el8.aarch64.rpm sane-backends-drivers-scanners-1.0.27-22.el8.aarch64.rpm sane-backends-drivers-scanners-debuginfo-1.0.27-22.el8.aarch64.rpm sane-backends-libs-1.0.27-22.el8.aarch64.rpm sane-backends-libs-debuginfo-1.0.27-22.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: sane-backends-doc-1.0.27-22.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: sane-backends-1.0.27-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm sane-backends-daemon-1.0.27-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm sane-backends-daemon-debuginfo-1.0.27-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm sane-backends-debuginfo-1.0.27-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm sane-backends-debugsource-1.0.27-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm sane-backends-devel-1.0.27-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm sane-backends-drivers-cameras-1.0.27-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm sane-backends-drivers-cameras-debuginfo-1.0.27-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm sane-backends-drivers-scanners-1.0.27-22.el8.ppc64le.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1744-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1744
Issue date: 2021-05-18

Topic

An update for sane-backends is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate impact sane-backends NULL pointer issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1848097 - CVE-2020-12867 sane-backends: NULL pointer dereference in sanei_epson_net_read function

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