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RHSA-2020:2846 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: gettext security update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · July 7, 2020

Updated · June 25, 2026

Topic

An update for gettext is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Extended Update Support.

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.

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:2846 — Red Hat Security Advisory: gettext security update | PulseLinux