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RHEL 7 : gettext (RHSA-2020:2846)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 138158
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for gettext.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2846 advisory.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.
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the RHEL gettext package based on the guidance in RHSA-2020:2846.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?a9d78bde
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 138158
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-2846.nasl
Version: 1.11
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 7/7/2020
Updated: 11/7/2024
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Low
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
Temporal Score: 5.9
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-18751
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-gettext, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:7.6, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gettext, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gettext-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gettext-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:gettext-common-devel
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Exploit Available: true
Exploit Ease: Exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2020
Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2018
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2018-18751