Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting libxml2 package, versions <2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.7


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.59% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-LIBXML2-540765
  • 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)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 libxml2 to version 2.9.3+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.7 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxml2 package and not the libxml2 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 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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