UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18751

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18751
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18751.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-18751
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Published
2018-10-29T00:00:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:45:05Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / gettext

Package

Name
gettext
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/gettext@0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.18.1.1-10ubuntu3
0.18.3.1-1ubuntu1
0.18.3.1-1ubuntu2
0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "autopoint"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "gettext"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "gettext-base"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "gettext-el"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "libasprintf-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "libasprintf0c2"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "libgettextpo-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "libgettextpo0"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / gettext

Package

Name
gettext
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/gettext@0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.19.4-1ubuntu3
0.19.6-1ubuntu1
0.19.7-2ubuntu2
0.19.7-2ubuntu3

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "autopoint"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "gettext"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "gettext-base"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "gettext-el"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "libasprintf-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "libasprintf0v5"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "libgettextpo-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1",
            "binary_name": "libgettextpo0"
        }
    ]
}

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / gettext

Package

Name
gettext
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/gettext@0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.19.8.1-4ubuntu1
0.19.8.1-4ubuntu2
0.19.8.1-4ubuntu4
0.19.8.1-6

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "autopoint"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "gettext"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "gettext-base"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "gettext-el"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libasprintf-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libasprintf0v5"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libgettextpo-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1",
            "binary_name": "libgettextpo0"
        }
    ]
}