CVE-2018-15855

Description

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 the XkbFile for an xkb_geometry section was mishandled.

References

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/917636b1d0d70205a13f89062b95e3a0fc31d4ff

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3