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alsa-2019:3643

Vulnerability from osv_almalinux

Published

2019-11-05 18:10

Modified

2023-03-13 16:34

Summary

Low: gettext security update

Details

The gettext packages provide a documentation for producing multi-lingual messages in programs, set of conventions about how programs should be written, a runtime library, and a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs.

Security Fix(es):

gettext: double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c (CVE-2018-18751)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

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CVE-2018-18751 (GCVE-0-2018-18751)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-28 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:16

Summary

An issue was discovered in GNU gettext 0.19.8. There is a double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c, related to an invalid free in po_gram_parse in po-gram-gen.y, as demonstrated by lt-msgfmt.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

URL

Tags

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	https://usn.ubuntu.com/3815-1/	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
	https://github.com/CCCCCrash/POCs/tree/master/Bin…	x_refsource_MISC
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	https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3643	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
	http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou…	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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