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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-15857): libxkbcommon vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-15857): libxkbcommon vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/25/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
10/17/2018
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

An invalid free in ExprAppendMultiKeysymList in xkbcomp/ast-build.c in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon keymap parsers or possibly have unspecified other impact by supplying a crafted keymap file.

Solution(s)

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

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