JLSEC-2025-174

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    JLSEC-2025-174

    Published: 21 Oct 2025Last Modified: 23 Jul 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2018-18751

    Summary: An issue was discovered in GNU gettext 0.19.8

    Details: 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: 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/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: Gettext_jll

    Purl: pkg:julia/Gettext_jll?uuid=78b55507-aeef-58d4-861c-77aaff3498b1

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -0.20.1+1

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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