RHSA-2020:2846 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: gettext security update
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
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.