Unscored USN-3815-1 1 CVE

gettext vulnerability

Published Nov 12, 2018 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

It was discovered that gettext incorrectly handled certain messages.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Fixed packages 3

Release	Package	Fixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS	gettext	0.18.3.1-1ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS	gettext	0.19.7-2ubuntu3.1
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS	gettext	0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

Unscored —

CVE-2018-18751

An issue was discovered in GNU gettext 0.19.8. There is a double free in default_add_message in read-catalog.c, related…

gettext gettext gettext Debian Ubuntu Alpine

Oct 28, 2018

References

report
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-18751