Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-18751 - Double Free vulnerability in multiple products
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL 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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
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| Application | 1 | |
| OS | 5 | |
| OS | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-2320.NASL description According to the version of the gettext packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - 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.(CVE-2018-18751) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 131485 published 2019-12-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/131485 title EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.3.0 : gettext (EulerOS-SA-2019-2320) NASL family PhotonOS Local Security Checks NASL id PHOTONOS_PHSA-2018-2_0-0116_GETTEXT.NASL description An update of the gettext package has been released. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2019-02-07 plugin id 122012 published 2019-02-07 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/122012 title Photon OS 2.0: Gettext PHSA-2018-2.0-0116 NASL family CentOS Local Security Checks NASL id CENTOS_RHSA-2020-1138.NASL description The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1138 advisory. - gettext: double free in default_add_message in read- catalog.c (CVE-2018-18751) Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application last seen 2020-06-06 modified 2020-04-10 plugin id 135346 published 2020-04-10 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135346 title CentOS 7 : gettext (CESA-2020:1138) NASL family Ubuntu Local Security Checks NASL id UBUNTU_USN-3815-1.NASL description It was discovered that gettext incorrectly handled certain messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 118906 published 2018-11-13 reporter Ubuntu Security Notice (C) 2018-2019 Canonical, Inc. / NASL script (C) 2018-2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/118906 title Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS / 18.10 : gettext vulnerability (USN-3815-1) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-2505.NASL description According to the version of the gettext packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - 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.(CVE-2018-18751) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2019-12-04 plugin id 131658 published 2019-12-04 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/131658 title EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : gettext (EulerOS-SA-2019-2505) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2020-1138.NASL description The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1138 advisory. - gettext: double free in default_add_message in read- catalog.c (CVE-2018-18751) Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application last seen 2020-04-23 modified 2020-03-31 plugin id 135046 published 2020-03-31 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135046 title RHEL 7 : gettext (RHSA-2020:1138) NASL family Scientific Linux Local Security Checks NASL id SL_20200407_GETTEXT_ON_SL7_X.NASL description * gettext: double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c last seen 2020-04-30 modified 2020-04-21 plugin id 135811 published 2020-04-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135811 title Scientific Linux Security Update : gettext on SL7.x x86_64 (20200407) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-D6211ABFB0.NASL description fix CVE-2018-18751 (rhbz#1647044), move gettextize man to correct subpackage Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2019-01-03 plugin id 120829 published 2019-01-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120829 title Fedora 29 : gettext (2018-d6211abfb0) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2019-3643.NASL description 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. 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. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 130561 published 2019-11-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/130561 title RHEL 8 : gettext (RHSA-2019:3643) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2020-1469.NASL description According to the version of the gettext packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - 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.(CVE-2018-18751) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-04-30 modified 2020-04-16 plugin id 135631 published 2020-04-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/135631 title EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.2.2 : gettext (EulerOS-SA-2020-1469) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-2075.NASL description According to the version of the gettext packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - 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.(CVE-2018-18751) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-03 modified 2019-09-30 plugin id 129434 published 2019-09-30 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129434 title EulerOS 2.0 SP8 : gettext (EulerOS-SA-2019-2075) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2020-1248.NASL description According to the version of the gettext packages installed, the EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - 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.(CVE-2018-18751) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-19 modified 2020-03-13 plugin id 134537 published 2020-03-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134537 title EulerOS Virtualization for ARM 64 3.0.2.0 : gettext (EulerOS-SA-2020-1248) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-2270.NASL description According to the version of the gettext packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - 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.(CVE-2018-18751) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2019-11-08 plugin id 130732 published 2019-11-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/130732 title EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : gettext (EulerOS-SA-2019-2270) NASL family Huawei Local Security Checks NASL id EULEROS_SA-2019-1966.NASL description According to the version of the gettext packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability : - 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.(CVE-2018-18751) Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-05-08 modified 2019-09-23 plugin id 129123 published 2019-09-23 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/129123 title EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : gettext (EulerOS-SA-2019-1966) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2018-A5D1FA335E.NASL description fix CVE-2018-18751 (rhbz#1647044), move gettextize man to correct subpackage Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2019-01-03 plugin id 120677 published 2019-01-03 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/120677 title Fedora 28 : gettext (2018-a5d1fa335e) NASL family Red Hat Local Security Checks NASL id REDHAT-RHSA-2020-2485.NASL description The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2485 advisory. - gettext: double free in default_add_message in read- catalog.c (CVE-2018-18751) Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application last seen 2020-06-13 modified 2020-06-12 plugin id 137395 published 2020-06-12 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/137395 title RHEL 7 : gettext (RHSA-2020:2485)
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References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00061.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00065.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00025.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3643
- https://github.com/CCCCCrash/POCs/tree/master/Bin/Tools-gettext-0.19.8.1/doublefree
- https://github.com/CCCCCrash/POCs/tree/master/Bin/Tools-gettext-0.19.8.1/heapcorruption
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3815-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3815-2/