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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019-3643-01 Low Severity Gettext Update

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Minor security notice regarding gettext enhancement in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 to mitigate possible risks.
An update for gettext is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The gettext packages provide a documentation for producing multi-lingual messages in programs, set of conventions about how programs should be written, a runtime library, and a directory and file naming organization for the message catalogs.
Security Fix(es):
* gettext: double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c (CVE-2018-18751)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat update low severity gettext

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18751 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8):
Source: gettext-0.19.8.1-17.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: gettext-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm gettext-debugsource-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm gettext-devel-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm gettext-libs-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: gettext-common-devel-0.19.8.1-17.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: gettext-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm gettext-debugsource-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm gettext-devel-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm gettext-libs-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: gettext-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm gettext-debugsource-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm gettext-devel-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm gettext-libs-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: gettext-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.i686.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3643-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3643
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for gettext is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security issue Red Hat update low severity gettext

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1647043 - CVE-2018-18751 gettext: double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c

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