vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-15853: xkbcommon: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 25, 2018
Added
Oct 31, 2018
Modified
Aug 13, 2025

Description

Endless recursion exists in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon and libxkbcommon before 0.8.1, which could be used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon users by supplying a crafted keymap file that triggers boolean negation.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-libxkbcommon
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