cve-2018-15862
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-08-25 21:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:10
Severity ?
Summary
Unchecked NULL pointer usage in LookupModMask 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 with invalid virtual modifiers.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/4e2ee9c3f6050d773f8bbe05bc0edb17f1ff8371Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039243.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/4e2ee9c3f6050d773f8bbe05bc0edb17f1ff8371Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039243.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/Third Party Advisory
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