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CVE-2019-17545

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-10-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-415

Description

GDAL through 3.0.1 has a poolDestroy double free in OGRExpatRealloc in ogr/ogr_expat.cpp when the 10MB threshold is exceeded.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31
• openSUSE Backports Sle: 15.0-sp1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1
• Oracle Spatial And Graph: 12.2.0.1, 19c
• OSGeo gdal: through 3.0.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00022.html
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16178
• https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/148115fcc40f1651a5d15fa34c9a8c528e7147bb
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00005.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/01/msg00004.html
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00040.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CB7RRPCQP253XA5MYUOLHLRPKNGKVZNT/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XVRC3EBQBFBVQC26XJE3AI3KQXC2NGTP/
• https://www.oracle.com//security-alerts/cpujul2021.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-11/msg00022.html
• https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=16178
• https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/commit/148115fcc40f1651a5d15fa34c9a8c528e7147bb

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