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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2019-17545 json

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

published 2019-10-14 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also PYSEC-2019-241 , EUVD-2019-0057

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.6%
EPSS 2.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 85%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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

Patch / fix

  • pypi gdal 3.0.2
  • gdal Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.4.2+dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-17545

  • gdal Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1.10.1+dfsg-5ubuntu1+esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-17545

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • gdal Package Hub 15 SP1, openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.4.3-bp151.4.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2019:2466-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-17545 updated cvss 5.8

gdal: double free in OGRExpatRealloc in ogr/ogr_expat.cpp

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 85% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
OSV 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi gdal
<3.0.2
3.0.2

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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