CVE-2018-15859
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15859
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-15859.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-15859
- Related
- Published
- 2018-08-25T21:29:02Z
- Modified
- 2024-08-01T08:49:32.165742Z
- 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
-
Unchecked NULL pointer usage when parsing invalid atoms in ExprResolveLhs in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon before 0.8.2 could be used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file, because lookup failures are mishandled.
- References
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- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039243.html
- https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/bb4909d2d8fa6b08155e449986a478101e2b2634
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-15859
Affected packages
Debian:11 / libxkbcommon
Package
- Name
- libxkbcommon
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/libxkbcommon?arch=source
Debian:12 / libxkbcommon
Package
- Name
- libxkbcommon
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/libxkbcommon?arch=source
Debian:13 / libxkbcommon
Package
- Name
- libxkbcommon
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/libxkbcommon?arch=source