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CVE-2020-12861 (GCVE-0-2020-12861)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-06-24 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-04 12:04
VLAI
Summary
A heap buffer overflow in SANE Backends before 1.0.30 allows a malicious device connected to the same local network as the victim to execute arbitrary code, aka GHSL-2020-080.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2020-05-17 00:00
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