Bug 1663035

Summary: glibc: Backport gettext asprintf error handling fix
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Component: glibcAssignee: Arjun Shankar <ashankar>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-tools-bugs
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact: Abhimanyu Jamaiyar <ajamaiya>
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 8.1CC: ashankar, codonell, dj, fweimer, lmanasko, mcermak, mnewsome, pfrankli, skolosov, vslavik
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Patch
Target Release: 8.1   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: glibc-2.28-52.el8 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
.`gettext` returns untranslated text even when out of memory Previously, the `gettext()` function for text localization returned the NULL value instead of text when out of memory, resulting in applications lacking text output or labels. The bug has been fixed and now, `gettext()` - returns untranslated text when out of memory as expected.
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Last Closed: 2019-11-05 21:29:04 UTC Type: Bug
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Bug Depends On: 1682593    
Bug Blocks: 1684553, 1701002    
Deadline: 2019-05-08   

Description Florian Weimer 2019-01-02 19:28:02 UTC 
In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, gettext may erroneously return NULL on an internal memory allocation failure.  The expectation is that it returns an untranslated string instead.

Upstream fix:

commit 8c1aafc1f34d090a5b41dc527c33e8687f6a1287
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer>
Date:   Fri Dec 21 16:08:55 2018 +0100

    intl: Do not return NULL on asprintf failure in gettext [BZ #24018]
    
    Fixes commit 9695dd0c9309712ed8e9c17a7040fe7af347f2dc ("DCIGETTEXT:
    Use getcwd, asprintf to construct absolute pathname").
Comment 8 Sergey Kolosov 2019-08-28 15:05:58 UTC 
Verified by following instructions://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1663035#c3
Comment 12 Abhimanyu Jamaiyar 2019-09-26 12:15:27 UTC 
Hi Arjun,

I have accepted your suggestion. Please review the Doc Text content.

Regards,
Abhimanyu Jamaiyar
Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2019-11-05 21:29:04 UTC 
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3513