ALPINE-CVE-2019-19956

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CVE-2019-19956
Published: 24 Dec 2019, 16:15
Last modified:19 Nov 2025, 06:15

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
3.1 (osv_alpine)
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

24 Dec 2019, 16:15
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
19 Nov 2025, 06:15
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Systems

  • alpine•libxml2

    < 2.9.9-r3 | < 2.9.8-r2 | < 2.9.9-r2

References (1)