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.
References
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079 | |
https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/917636b1d0d70205a13f89062b95e3a0fc31d4ff | Patch Third Party Advisory |
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html | 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-2018-15855
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-08-25T21:29:01.733
Modified: 2019-08-06T17:15:25.087
Link: CVE-2018-15855
JSON object: View
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CWE