CVE-2018-15861
Published: 25 August 2018
Unchecked NULL pointer usage 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 that triggers an xkb_intern_atom failure.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 5.5
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
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libxkbcommon Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Released
(0.8.2-1)
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| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
Released
(0.8.0-1ubuntu0.1)
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| Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus) |
Released
(0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1)
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Does not exist
(trusty was released [0.4.1-0ubuntu1.1])
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Patches: Vendor: https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/38e1766bc6e20108948aec8a0b222a4bad0254e9 |
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