CVE-2020-12867: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A NULL pointer dereference in sanei_epson_net_read in SANE Backends before 1.0.30 allows a malicious device connected to the same local network as the victim to cause a denial of service, aka GHSL-2020-075.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 20.04 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 32 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only; version 15.2 only
• Sane-Project Sane Backends: before 1.0.30 (fixed in 1.0.30)

Published 2020-06-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.