CVE-2019-19956
High
CVE-2019-19956
xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.10 has a memory leak related to newDoc->oldNs.
Exploit probability
5.5%
Published
December 24, 2019
Required by
Not available
Last source change
August 7, 2026
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
174 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
Open Source Vulnerabilities
CVE-2019-19956
View original source
xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.10 has a memory leak related to newDoc->oldNs.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00047.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00005.html
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-292794.pdf
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/5a02583c7e683896d84878bd90641d8d9b0d0549
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00032.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5R55ZR52RMBX24TQTWHCIWKJVRV6YAWI/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JDPF3AAVKUAKDYFMFKSIQSVVS3EEFPQH/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200114-0002/
- https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-103-08
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4274-1/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html