CVE-2018-15853

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15853
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-15853.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-15853
Related
Published
2018-08-25T21:29:01Z
Modified
2024-08-01T08:49:29.105995Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Endless recursion exists in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon and libxkbcommon before 0.8.1, which could be used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon users by supplying a crafted keymap file that triggers boolean negation.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / libxkbcommon

Package

Name
libxkbcommon
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxkbcommon?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.8.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:12 / libxkbcommon

Package

Name
libxkbcommon
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxkbcommon?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.8.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Debian:13 / libxkbcommon

Package

Name
libxkbcommon
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/libxkbcommon?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.8.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "low"
}

Git / github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed

Affected versions

xkbcommon-0.*

xkbcommon-0.2.0
xkbcommon-0.3.0
xkbcommon-0.3.1
xkbcommon-0.3.2
xkbcommon-0.4.0
xkbcommon-0.4.1
xkbcommon-0.4.2
xkbcommon-0.4.3
xkbcommon-0.5.0
xkbcommon-0.6.0
xkbcommon-0.6.1
xkbcommon-0.7.0
xkbcommon-0.7.1
xkbcommon-0.7.2
xkbcommon-0.8.0