vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-15855): libxkbcommon vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 25, 2018
Added
Oct 17, 2018
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libxkbcommon-x11-0ubuntu-upgrade-libxkbcommon0
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