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CVE-2018-15858

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Description

Unchecked NULL pointer usage when handling invalid aliases in CopyKeyAliasesToKeymap in xkbcomp/keycodes.c 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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published8/25/2018

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

canonical:ubuntu_linuxxkbcommon:libxkbcommonxkbcommon:xkbcommon

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476

References

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/badb428e63387140720f22486b3acbd3d738859f(cve@mitre.org)

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05(cve@mitre.org)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/(cve@mitre.org)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/badb428e63387140720f22486b3acbd3d738859f(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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