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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-19956: Moderate: libxml2 security update (ALSA-2020-4479)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 24, 2019
Added
May 4, 2022
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

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

Solutions

alma-upgrade-libxml2alma-upgrade-libxml2-develalma-upgrade-python3-libxml2
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