RHEL 8 : sane-backends (RHSA-2020:2967)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138557

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for sane-backends.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2967 advisory.

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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL sane-backends package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:2967.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 138557

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2967.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 7/16/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.9

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-12861

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sane-backends-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sane-backends-drivers-scanners, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sane-backends-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sane-backends-daemon, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sane-backends-drivers-cameras, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.1, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sane-backends, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:sane-backends-libs

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/16/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/24/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-12861, CVE-2020-12865

CWE: 122, 190

RHSA: 2020:2967

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