vulnerability

Gentoo Linux: CVE-2018-15861: 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
Mar 31, 2026

Description

Unchecked NULL pointer usage 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 that triggers an xkb_intern_atom failure.

Solution

gentoo-linux-upgrade-x11-libs-libxkbcommon
Title
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