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CVE-2018-15854

Published: 25 August 2018

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 geometry tokens were desupported incorrectly.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
libxkbcommon
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream
Released (0.8.2-1)
xenial
Released (0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1)
bionic
Released (0.8.0-1ubuntu0.1)
cosmic Not vulnerable
(0.8.2-1)
trusty
Released (0.4.1-0ubuntu1.1)
Patches:
vendor: https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/e3cacae7b1bfda0d839c280494f23284a1187adf

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H