CVE-2018-15854

Medium

Description

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 geometry tokens were desupported incorrectly.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.5
Exploit probability—
ProductXkbcommon
PublishedAug 25, 2018
First seenAug 25, 2018

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
xkbcommon_project xkbcommonv < 0.8.10.8.1
canonical ubuntu_linux14.04, 16.04, 18.04—

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