SB2019123153 - Memory leak in libxml2 (Alpine package)
Published: December 31, 2019
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019123153
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19956)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform DoS attack on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due memory leak in xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c. A remote attacker can trigger a memory leak related to newDoc->oldNs and perform denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.