Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-20393 - Double Free vulnerability in Cesnet Libyang
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
---|---|---|
Application | 11 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://github.com/CESNET/libyang/commit/d9feacc4a590d35dbc1af21caf9080008b4450ed
- https://github.com/CESNET/libyang/compare/v0.16-r3...v1.0-r1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1793930
- https://github.com/CESNET/libyang/issues/742
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00019.html