Memory Leak Affecting libxml2-devel package, versions <2.9.7-3.22.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBXML2DEVEL-2710422
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed4 Jun 2020

Introduced: 4 Jun 2020

CVE-2019-19956  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-401  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.1 libxml2-devel to version 2.9.7-3.22.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2-devel package and not the libxml2-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.1 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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