#VU24489 Memory leak in Libxml2 - CVE-2019-19956

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#VU24489 Memory leak in Libxml2 - CVE-2019-19956

Published: January 22, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU24489
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-19956
CWE-ID: CWE-401
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Libxml2
Software vendor:
Gnome Development Team

Description

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 updates from vendor's website.

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