CVE-2018-15859

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    CVE-2018-15859

    Published: 25 Aug 2018Last Modified: 5 Sept 2026

    Summary:

    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: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079, 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/bb4909d2d8fa6b08155e449986a478101e2b2634, https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039243.html

    Affected packages

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    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    xkbcommon-0.8.1
    xkbcommon-0.8.0

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