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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 RHSA-2020-2485-01 Low: Gettext Double Free

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Calendar Grey June 10, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A new patch for gettext is now present on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7, characterized by a low-level security risk. For additional details, click here.
An update for gettext is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Extended Update Support

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory security update security issue Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity double free gettext

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18751 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.7):
Source: gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.src.rpm
x86_64: gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.x86_64.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.i686.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.x86_64.rpm gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.i686.rpm gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7):
noarch: emacs-gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.noarch.rpm gettext-common-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.noarch.rpm
x86_64: gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.i686.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.x86_64.rpm gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.i686.rpm gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.x86_64.rpm
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7):
Source: gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.src.rpm
noarch: gettext-common-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.noarch.rpm
ppc64: gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.ppc64.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.ppc.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.ppc64.rpm gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.ppc.rpm gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.ppc64.rpm gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.ppc.rpm gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.ppc64.rpm
ppc64le: gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.ppc64le.rpm gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.ppc64le.rpm gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.ppc64le.rpm gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7_7.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2485-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2485
Issue date: 2020-06-10

Topic

An update for gettext is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7Extended Update Support.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 security update security issue Red Hat Enterprise Linux low severity double free gettext

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode EUS (v. 7.7) - x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional EUS (v. 7.7) - noarch, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server EUS (v. 7.7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional EUS (v. 7.7) - noarch

Bugs Fixed

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

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