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Debian: CVE-2019-20393: libyang -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-20393: libyang -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/22/2020
Created
09/21/2023
Added
09/21/2023
Modified
09/21/2023

Description

A double-free is present in libyang before v1.0-r1 in the function yyparse() when an empty description is used. 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.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-libyang

References

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