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LIN8-9716 : Security Advisory - libxkbcommon - CVE-2018-15858

Created: Aug 31, 2018    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Sep 13, 2018
Found In Version: 8.0.0.27
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace

Description

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.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15858

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