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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7: RHSA-2020-1138 Moderate: Gettext Security Fix

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Explore the recent gettext patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, addressing minor vulnerability issues and necessary upgrades.
An update for gettext is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix low severity enterprise gettext

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18751 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):
Source: gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):
noarch: emacs-gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.noarch.rpm gettext-common-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):
Source: gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.src.rpm
x86_64: gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):
noarch: emacs-gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.noarch.rpm gettext-common-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):
Source: gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.src.rpm
noarch:

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Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1138-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1138
Issue date: 2020-03-31

Topic

An update for gettext is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix low severity enterprise gettext

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

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

1788414 - [gettext] preuninstall scripts in TPS tests are failing for 2019:45774

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