Memory Leak The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2-doc  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES151-LIBXML2DOC-2711468
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed18 May 2020

Introduced: 18 May 2020

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

Amendment

The SLES security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for SLES:15.1.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2-doc package and not the libxml2-doc package as distributed by SLES.

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