Mageia 7 Update: MGASA-2020-0020 Critical Memory Leak in Libxml2
mageia
January 5, 2020
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability: xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.10 has a memory leak related to newDoc->oldNs
Summary
The updated packages fix a security vulnerability:
xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover in parser.c in libxml2 before 2.9.10
has a memory leak related to newDoc->oldNs. (CVE-2019-19956)
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25985
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00032.html
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-19956
Topics Covered
Resolution
SRPMS
- 7/core/libxml2-2.9.9-2.1.mga7
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Publication date: 05 Jan 2020
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2020-0020.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-19956
Topics Covered
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