CVE-2018-18751

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Summary

CVECVE-2018-18751
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-10-29 12:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-09-08 18:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-415

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 12.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 14.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 All All All
Operating System Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 All All All
Application Gnu Gettext 0.19.8 All All All
Application Gnu Gettext 0.19.8 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
POCs/Bin/Tools-gettext-0.19.8.1/doublefree at master · CCCCCrash/POCs · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1278-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1385-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
USN-3815-2: gettext vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2020:1270-1: moderate: Security update f SUSE lists.opensuse.org
USN-3815-1: gettext vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com Third Party Advisory
POCs/Bin/Tools-gettext-0.19.8.1/heapcorruption at master · CCCCCrash/POCs · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 296075 Oracle Solaris 11.4 Support Repository Update (SRU) 21.69.0 Missing (CPUAPR2020)
  • 377282 Alibaba Cloud Linux Security Update for gettext (ALINUX2-SA-2020:0040)
  • 500202 Alpine Linux Security Update for gettext
  • 503944 Alpine Linux Security Update for gettext
  • 751490 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for gettext-runtime (SUSE-SU-2021:4060-1)
  • 940327 AlmaLinux Security Update for gettext (ALSA-2019:3643)
  • 960231 Rocky Linux Security Update for gettext (RLSA-2019:3643)
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