Vigil@nce - GNU gettext: use after free via default_add_message
January 2019 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Fedora, Ubuntu, WindRiver Linux.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: user access/rights, denial of service on service,
denial of service on client.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 12/11/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force the usage of a freed memory area via
default_add_message() of GNU gettext, in order to trigger a denial
of service, and possibly to run code.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/GNU-gettext-use-after-free-via-default-add-message-27753