CVE-2018-18751
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-10-28 17:00
Modified
2024-08-05 11:16
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00061.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00065.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00025.html
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3643
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/CCCCCrash/POCs/tree/master/Bin/Tools-gettext-0.19.8.1/doublefreeExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/CCCCCrash/POCs/tree/master/Bin/Tools-gettext-0.19.8.1/heapcorruptionExploit, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3815-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3815-2/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00061.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00065.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00025.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3643
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/CCCCCrash/POCs/tree/master/Bin/Tools-gettext-0.19.8.1/doublefreeExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/CCCCCrash/POCs/tree/master/Bin/Tools-gettext-0.19.8.1/heapcorruptionExploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3815-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3815-2/Third Party Advisory
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