Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxml2  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1204-LIBXML2-540770
  • published24 Dec 2019
  • disclosed24 Dec 2019

Introduced: 24 Dec 2019

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:12.04.

NVD Description

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

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