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LIN8-9709 : Security Advisory - libxkbcommon - CVE-2018-15859

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 parsing invalid atoms in ExprResolveLhs in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon before 0.8.2 could be used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file, because lookup failures are mishandled.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15859

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