CVE-2003-0775: Sane

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

saned in sane-backends 1.0.7 and earlier calls malloc with an arbitrary size value if a connection is dropped before the size value has been sent, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption or crash).

Affected products

• Sane Sane: version 1.0.0 only; version 1.0.1 only; version 1.0.2 only; version 1.0.3 only; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.0.5 only; …
• Sane Sane-Backend: version 1.0.10 only

Published 2003-09-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.