Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting python3-libxml2 package, versions <0:2.9.7-8.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-PYTHON3LIBXML2-3857099
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed8 Jan 2020

Introduced: 8 Jan 2020

CVE-2019-19956  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 python3-libxml2 to version 0:2.9.7-8.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2020:4479.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3-libxml2 package and not the python3-libxml2 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.10 has a memory leak related to newDoc->oldNs.

CVSS Scores

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