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CVE-2018-15859

Published: Aug 25, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

Unchecked NULL pointer usage when parsing invalid atoms 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, because lookup failures are mishandled.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_GENTOO

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039243.html

x_refsource_MISC

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/bb4909d2d8fa6b08155e449986a478101e2b2634

x_refsource_MISC

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

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