CVE-2018-15864

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15864
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-15864.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-15864
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-08-25T21:29:02Z
Modified
2026-09-05T03:47:28Z
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 in resolve_keysym in xkbcomp/parser.y 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 a map access attempt can occur for a map that was never created.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:xkbcommon:xkbcommon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "0.8.1"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE",
            "vendor_product": "xkbcommon:xkbcommon"
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

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
Last Affected
87046f56efc89d3b0771df9b4fefcda39ade3dd1
Fixed
a8ea7a1d3daa7bdcb877615ae0a252c189153bd2
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:xkbcommon:libxkbcommon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.8.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

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
xkbcommon-0.8.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-15864.json"