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Red Hat: CVE-2019-19956: CVE-2019-19956 libxml2: memory leak in xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2019-19956: CVE-2019-19956 libxml2: memory leak in xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/24/2019
Created
10/01/2020
Added
10/01/2020
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-libxml2
  • redhat-upgrade-libxml2-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-libxml2-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-libxml2-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-libxml2-python
  • redhat-upgrade-libxml2-static
  • redhat-upgrade-python3-libxml2
  • redhat-upgrade-python3-libxml2-debuginfo

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