vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-15856): 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

An infinite loop when reaching EOL unexpectedly in compose/parser.c (aka the keymap parser) in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to cause a denial of service during parsing of crafted keymap files.

Solutions

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