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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-17545

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

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31 Oct 2026, 12:29 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-17545

core-osv · Original source

Published 14 Oct 2019, 02:15 UTC

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

osv:CVE-2019-17545
Complete source record
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