UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20397

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-20397
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20397.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-20397
Upstream
Published
2020-01-22T22:15:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:45:49Z
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
  • Ubuntu - medium
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

Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS / libyang

Package

Name
libyang
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/libyang@0.16.105-3build1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

0.*

0.16.105-1
0.16.105-2
0.16.105-3
0.16.105-3build1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libyang-cpp-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.16.105-3build1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libyang-cpp0.16",
            "binary_version": "0.16.105-3build1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libyang-dev",
            "binary_version": "0.16.105-3build1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libyang0.16",
            "binary_version": "0.16.105-3build1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-yang",
            "binary_version": "0.16.105-3build1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "yang-tools",
            "binary_version": "0.16.105-3build1"
        }
    ]
}