Issued:

2019-11-05

Updated:

2019-11-05

RHSA-2019:3643 - Low: gettext security update

Synopsis

Low: gettext security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

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.

Description

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.

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

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
• gettext-debugsource-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
• gettext-devel-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
• gettext-libs-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
• gettext-devel-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
• gettext-libs-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• gettext-devel-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.i686.rpm
• gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-17.el8.i686.rpm
• gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm
• gettext-debugsource-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
• gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
• gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm
• gettext-libs-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm
• gettext-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
• gettext-debugsource-0.19.8.1-17.el8.i686.rpm
• gettext-common-devel-0.19.8.1-17.el8.noarch.rpm
• gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm
• gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-17.el8.i686.rpm
• gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.i686.rpm
• gettext-devel-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
• gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• gettext-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm
• gettext-debugsource-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
• gettext-libs-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
• gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
• gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.aarch64.rpm
• gettext-libs-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.i686.rpm
• gettext-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• gettext-0.19.8.1-17.el8.src.rpm
• gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• gettext-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
• gettext-debugsource-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm
• gettext-devel-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.s390x.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

• CVE-2018-18751

References

• 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/

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.