vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2018-15855: libxkbcommon -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 25, 2018
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-libxkbcommon
Title
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