CVE-2018-18751 (GCVE-0-2018-18751)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-10-28 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:16
VLAI
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3815-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3815-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://github.com/CCCCCrash/POCs/tree/master/Bin… x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/CCCCCrash/POCs/tree/master/Bin… x_refsource_MISC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3643 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Date Public
2018-10-28 00:00
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