A gettext security update is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Low: gettext security update
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
CVE Names: CVE-2018-18751
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1. Summary:
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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. 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.
4. 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
5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1647043 - CVE-2018-18751 gettext: double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c
6. 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
gettext-debugsource-0.19.8.1-17.el8.i686.rpm
gettext-debugsource-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-17.el8.i686.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
gettext-devel-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.i686.rpm
gettext-devel-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-17.el8.i686.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
gettext-libs-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.i686.rpm
gettext-libs-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-17.el8.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. 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/
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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