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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-18751): gettext vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-18751): gettext vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
10/29/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
11/15/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-gettext

References

  • USN-3815-1
  • USN-3815-2
  • CVE-2018-18751

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