diff --git a/main/libxml2/APKBUILD b/main/libxml2/APKBUILD
index 9786ea46694..8cc33bb0486 100644
--- a/main/libxml2/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/libxml2/APKBUILD
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter@gmail.com>
 pkgname=libxml2
 pkgver=2.9.9
-pkgrel=2
+pkgrel=3
 pkgdesc="XML parsing library, version 2"
 url="http://www.xmlsoft.org/"
 arch="all"
@@ -15,10 +15,13 @@ subpackages="$pkgname-dbg $pkgname-doc $pkgname-dev $pkgname-utils
 options="!strip"
 source="http://xmlsoft.org/sources/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz
 	fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch
+	CVE-2019-19956.patch
 	"
 builddir="$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
 
 # secfixes:
+#   2.9.9-r3:
+#   - CVE-2019-19956
 #   2.9.8-r1:
 #   - CVE-2018-9251
 #   - CVE-2018-14404
@@ -110,4 +113,5 @@ utils() {
 }
 
 sha512sums="cb7784ba4e72e942614e12e4f83f4ceb275f3d738b30e3b5c1f25edf8e9fa6789e854685974eed95b362049dbf6c8e7357e0327d64c681ed390534ac154e6810  libxml2-2.9.9.tar.gz
-83074e582cdba8bedff40fc653731ad18ca357bde8f1420e2e8a2a38998b951aebcb73ca5d51859be3b4d9bc1a0308836ca2bb612269edbc61b9dd6ebc7fdb2a  fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch"
+83074e582cdba8bedff40fc653731ad18ca357bde8f1420e2e8a2a38998b951aebcb73ca5d51859be3b4d9bc1a0308836ca2bb612269edbc61b9dd6ebc7fdb2a  fix-null-pointer-dereference.patch
+0e03d0dcfae1e99e06c7a4c9a4d863a1518589e403d79665727883b27d7c0d7026b18e29b7c68df41138fbdffb88d977c5ef10ce2ffb96d1a6255304d89c2bb6  CVE-2019-19956.patch"
diff --git a/main/libxml2/CVE-2019-19956.patch b/main/libxml2/CVE-2019-19956.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5bfb5d50648
--- /dev/null
+++ b/main/libxml2/CVE-2019-19956.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+From 5a02583c7e683896d84878bd90641d8d9b0d0549 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Zhipeng Xie <xiezhipeng1@huawei.com>
+Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2019 17:39:17 +0800
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix memory leak in xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover
+
+When doc is NULL, namespace created in xmlTreeEnsureXMLDecl
+is bind to newDoc->oldNs, in this case, set newDoc->oldNs to
+NULL and free newDoc will cause a memory leak.
+
+Found with libFuzzer.
+
+Closes #82.
+---
+ parser.c | 3 ++-
+ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/parser.c b/parser.c
+index 1ce1ccf1..26d9f4e3 100644
+--- a/parser.c
++++ b/parser.c
+@@ -13894,7 +13894,8 @@ xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryRecover(xmlDocPtr doc, xmlSAXHandlerPtr sax,
+     xmlFreeParserCtxt(ctxt);
+     newDoc->intSubset = NULL;
+     newDoc->extSubset = NULL;
+-    newDoc->oldNs = NULL;
++    if(doc != NULL)
++	newDoc->oldNs = NULL;
+     xmlFreeDoc(newDoc);
+ 
+     return(ret);
+-- 
+2.24.1
+