CVE-2019-19956

HIGH

Xmlsoft Libxml2 < 2.9.10 - Memory Leak

Title source: rule

Description

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

References (12)

[Broken Link] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00047.html

[Broken Link] http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00005.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-292794.pdf

[Patch, Third Party Advisory] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/5a02583c7e683896d84878bd90641d8d9b0d0549

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00032.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200114-0002/

[Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource] https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-103-08

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4274-1/

[Third Party Advisory] https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5R55ZR52RMBX24TQTWHCIWKJVRV6YAWI/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JDPF3AAVKUAKDYFMFKSIQSVVS3EEFPQH/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5

EPSS 0.0015

EPSS Percentile 35.9%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE

CWE-772 CWE-401

Status published

Affected Products (18)

xmlsoft/libxml2 < 2.9.10

debian/debian_linux

debian/debian_linux

oracle/real_user_experience_insight

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

netapp/active_iq_unified_manager

netapp/clustered_data_ontap

netapp/clustered_data_ontap_antivirus_connector

netapp/manageability_software_development_kit

... and 3 more

Timeline

Published Dec 24, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026