This update for libxkbcommon to version 0.8.2 fixes the following issues :

Fix a few NULL-dereferences, out-of-bounds access and undefined behavior in the XKB text format parser.

CVE-2018-15853: Endless recursion could have been used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon users by supplying a crafted keymap file that triggers boolean negation (bsc#1105832).

CVE-2018-15854: Unchecked NULL pointer usage could have been used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file, because geometry tokens were desupported incorrectly (bsc#1105832).

CVE-2018-15855: Unchecked NULL pointer usage could have been 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 (bsc#1105832).

CVE-2018-15856: An infinite loop when reaching EOL unexpectedly could be used by local attackers to cause a denial of service during parsing of crafted keymap files (bsc#1105832).

CVE-2018-15857: An invalid free in ExprAppendMultiKeysymList could have been used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon keymap parsers or possibly have unspecified other impact by supplying a crafted keymap file (bsc#1105832).

CVE-2018-15858: Unchecked NULL pointer usage when handling invalid aliases in CopyKeyAliasesToKeymap could have been used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file (bsc#1105832).

CVE-2018-15859: Unchecked NULL pointer usage when parsing invalid atoms in ExprResolveLhs could have been used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file, because lookup failures are mishandled (bsc#1105832).

CVE-2018-15861: Unchecked NULL pointer usage in ExprResolveLhs could have been 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 (bsc#1105832).

CVE-2018-15862: Unchecked NULL pointer usage in LookupModMask could have been used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file with invalid virtual modifiers (bsc#1105832).

CVE-2018-15863: Unchecked NULL pointer usage in ResolveStateAndPredicate could have been used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file with a no-op modmask expression (bsc#1105832).

CVE-2018-15864: Unchecked NULL pointer usage in resolve_keysym could have been used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file, because a map access attempt can occur for a map that was never created (bsc#1105832).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

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SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : libxkbcommon (SUSE-SU-2018:3685-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 120161

Version 1.4