[RHSA-2020:1138-01] Low: gettext security and bug fix update

Tue Mar 31 19:38:07 UTC 2020

An update for gettext is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) - x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) - noarch, ppc64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) - noarch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) - noarch, x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) - noarch

3. Description:

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 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

4. Solution:

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1647043 - CVE-2018-18751 gettext: double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c
1788414 - [gettext] preuninstall scripts in TPS tests are failing for 2019:45774

6. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7):

Source:
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.src.rpm

x86_64:
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7):

noarch:
emacs-gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.noarch.rpm
gettext-common-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7):

Source:
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.src.rpm

x86_64:
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7):

noarch:
emacs-gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.noarch.rpm
gettext-common-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7):

Source:
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.src.rpm

noarch:
gettext-common-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.noarch.rpm

ppc64:
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.ppc64.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.ppc.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.ppc64.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.ppc.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.ppc64.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.ppc.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.ppc64.rpm

ppc64le:
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.s390x.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.s390.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.s390x.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.s390.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.s390x.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.s390.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7):

noarch:
emacs-gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.noarch.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7):

Source:
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.src.rpm

noarch:
gettext-common-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-debuginfo-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-devel-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.i686.rpm
gettext-libs-0.19.8.1-3.el7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7):

noarch:
emacs-gettext-0.19.8.1-3.el7.noarch.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security.  Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-18751
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert at redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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