CVE-2019-20397

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-20397
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-20397.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-20397
Downstream
Published
2020-01-22T22:15:10Z
Modified
2025-09-19T11:00:52.542461Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

A double-free is present in libyang before v1.0-r1 in the function yyparse() when an organization field is not terminated. Applications that use libyang to parse untrusted input yang files may be vulnerable to this flaw, which would cause a crash or potentially code execution.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/cesnet/libyang

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/cesnet/libyang
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
88bd6c548ba79bce176cd875e9b56e7e0ef4d8d4

Affected versions

v0.*

v0.11-r1
v0.11-r2
v0.12-r1
v0.12-r2
v0.13-r1
v0.13-r2
v0.14-r1
v0.15-r1
v0.16-r1
v0.16-r2
v0.16-r3

Database specific 

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