CVE-2018-15855

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    CVE-2018-15855

    Published: 25 Aug 2018Last Modified: 5 Sept 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Unchecked NULL pointer usage in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file, because the XkbFile for an xkb_geometry section was mishandled.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079, https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/, https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/, https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/917636b1d0d70205a13f89062b95e3a0fc31d4ff

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -87046f56efc89d3b0771df9b4fefcda39ade3dd1

    Affected versions

    xkbcommon-0.8.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
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    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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    High