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CVE-2019-20396 (GCVE-0-2019-20396)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-01-22 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 02:39
VLAI
Summary
A segmentation fault is present in yyparse in libyang before v1.0-r1 due to a malformed pattern statement value during lys_parse_path parsing.
CWE
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