Endless recursion exists in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon and libxkbcommon before 0.8.1, which could be used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon users by supplying a crafted keymap file that triggers boolean negation.
References
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079 | |
https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/1f9d1248c07cda8aaff762429c0dce146de8632a | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html | Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05 | Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/ | Third Party Advisory |
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/ | Third Party Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2018-08-25T21:00:00
Updated: 2019-08-06T16:06:20
Reserved: 2018-08-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-15853
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-08-25T21:29:01.483
Modified: 2019-08-06T17:15:24.803
Link: CVE-2018-15853
JSON object: View
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CWE