Unchecked NULL pointer usage when handling invalid aliases in CopyKeyAliasesToKeymap in xkbcomp/keycodes.c 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.
References
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https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/badb428e63387140720f22486b3acbd3d738859f | 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: 2018-11-07T10:57:01
Reserved: 2018-08-24T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2018-15858
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-08-25T21:29:02.063
Modified: 2019-03-19T17:34:19.187
Link: CVE-2018-15858
JSON object: View
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