CVE-2019-19956: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

December 24, 2019 (updated July 21, 2021)

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

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-19956

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