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CVE-2018-18751

Published: 29 October 2018

An issue was discovered in GNU gettext 0.19.8. There is a double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c, related to an invalid free in po_gram_parse in po-gram-gen.y, as demonstrated by lt-msgfmt.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
gettext
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

trusty
Released (0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3.1)
xenial
Released (0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1)
bionic
Released (0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1)
cosmic
Released (0.19.8.1-8ubuntu0.1)
Patches:
upstream: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gettext.git;a=commitdiff;h=dce3a16e5e9368245735e29bf498dcd5e3e474a4

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H