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Debian: CVE-2019-19956: libxml2 -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2019-19956: libxml2 -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/24/2019
Created
12/31/2019
Added
12/30/2019
Modified
02/10/2020

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-libxml2

References

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