MGASA-2018-0464 - Updated gettext packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Nov 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0464.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 6
CVE: CVE-2018-18751

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.
(CVE-2018-18751)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23843
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3815-1
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-18751

SRPMS:
- 6/core/gettext-0.19.8.1-1.1.mga6

Mageia 2018-0464: gettext security update

An issue was discovered in GNU gettext 0.19.8

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. (CVE-2018-18751)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23843

- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3815-1

- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-18751

Resolution

MGASA-2018-0464 - Updated gettext packages fix security vulnerability

SRPMS

- 6/core/gettext-0.19.8.1-1.1.mga6

Severity
Publication date: 21 Nov 2018
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2018-0464.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2018-18751

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