Double Free Affecting gettext-common-devel package, versions <0:0.19.8.1-17.el8


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.34% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-GETTEXTCOMMONDEVEL-3215842
  • published5 Jan 2023
  • disclosed29 Oct 2018

Introduced: 29 Oct 2018

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 gettext-common-devel to version 0:0.19.8.1-17.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2019:3643.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gettext-common-devel package and not the gettext-common-devel package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.