Important: sane-backends security update

Synopsis

Important: sane-backends security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

An update for sane-backends is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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: Heap buffer overflow in epsonds_net_read in epsonds-net.c (CVE-2020-12861)
  • sane-backends: Heap buffer overflow in esci2_img (CVE-2020-12865)

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.

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.1 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.1 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.1 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.1 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1850556 - CVE-2020-12861 sane-backends: Heap buffer overflow in epsonds_net_read in epsonds-net.c
  • BZ - 1850598 - CVE-2020-12865 sane-backends: Heap buffer overflow in esci2_img

CVEs

References