Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-15859): libxkbcommon vulnerabilities
2
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
08/25/2018
03/19/2019
10/17/2018
03/02/2020
Description
Unchecked NULL pointer usage when parsing invalid atoms 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, because lookup failures are mishandled.
Solution(s)
- ubuntu-upgrade-libxkbcommon-x11-0
- ubuntu-upgrade-libxkbcommon0
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