CVE-2020-12861

A flaw was found in sane-backends in versions prior to 1.0.30. A heap buffer overflow in epsonds_net_read function could lead to a remote denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

The vulnerable code is a part of "driver for Epson ESC/I-2 scanners" which was first introduced in sane-backends-1.0.25 (via https://gitlab.com/sane-project/backends/-/commit/d72f4663c0ad6e6f779c15c8baf5f92b675ae19a). Therefore, only versions of sane-backends shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 are affected by this flaw.

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

This flaw can be mitigated by limiting network scanner discovery to a trusted subnet via the "net" configuration in the "/etc/sane.d/epsonds.conf" configuration file. Also, automatic network scanner discovery can be turned off by commenting out the line "net autodiscovery" in the same configuration file.