CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2019-20397

Double Free

Published: Jan 22, 2020 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
8.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
6.8 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

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.

Weakness

The product calls free() twice on the same memory address.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libyang Cesnet 0.11-r1 (including) 0.11-r1 (including)
Libyang Cesnet 0.11-r2 (including) 0.11-r2 (including)
Libyang Cesnet 0.12-r1 (including) 0.12-r1 (including)
Libyang Cesnet 0.12-r2 (including) 0.12-r2 (including)
Libyang Cesnet 0.13-r1 (including) 0.13-r1 (including)
Libyang Cesnet 0.13-r2 (including) 0.13-r2 (including)
Libyang Cesnet 0.14-r1 (including) 0.14-r1 (including)
Libyang Cesnet 0.15-r1 (including) 0.15-r1 (including)
Libyang Cesnet 0.16-r1 (including) 0.16-r1 (including)
Libyang Cesnet 0.16-r2 (including) 0.16-r2 (including)
Libyang Cesnet 0.16-r3 (including) 0.16-r3 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RedHat libyang-0:1.0.184-1.el8 *
Libyang Ubuntu eoan *
Libyang Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Libyang Ubuntu focal *
Libyang Ubuntu groovy *
Libyang Ubuntu hirsute *
Libyang Ubuntu trusty *
Libyang Ubuntu upstream *

Potential Mitigations

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