Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting libxml2 package, versions <2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u8
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.43% (75th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-LIBXML2-539767
- published 24 Dec 2019
- disclosed 24 Dec 2019
Introduced: 24 Dec 2019
CVE-2019-19956 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8
libxml2
to version 2.9.1+dfsg1-5+deb8u8 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 Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.10 has a memory leak related to newDoc->oldNs.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-19956
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-292794.pdf
- https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ics/advisories/icsa-21-103-08
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00032.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5R55ZR52RMBX24TQTWHCIWKJVRV6YAWI/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JDPF3AAVKUAKDYFMFKSIQSVVS3EEFPQH/
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/commit/5a02583c7e683896d84878bd90641d8d9b0d0549
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00009.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200114-0002/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00047.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-06/msg00005.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4274-1/
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-19956
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5R55ZR52RMBX24TQTWHCIWKJVRV6YAWI/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JDPF3AAVKUAKDYFMFKSIQSVVS3EEFPQH/