Double Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package gettext  (opens in a new tab)


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4.26% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-GETTEXT-10075922
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed29 Oct 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-18751  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

This was deemed not a vulnerability.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free. 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.