CVE-2018-15863 (GCVE-0-2018-15863)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-25 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:10
VLAI
Summary
Unchecked NULL pointer usage in ResolveStateAndPredicate in xkbcomp/compat.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 with a no-op modmask expression.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-de… x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/… x_refsource_MISC
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Date Public
2018-08-25 00:00
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