CVE-2018-15855

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15855
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-15855.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-15855
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-08-25T21:29:01Z
Modified
2025-10-15T09:22:06.677970Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Affected packages

Git / github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
917636b1d0d70205a13f89062b95e3a0fc31d4ff

Affected versions

xkbcommon-0.*

xkbcommon-0.2.0
xkbcommon-0.3.0
xkbcommon-0.3.1
xkbcommon-0.3.2
xkbcommon-0.4.0
xkbcommon-0.4.1
xkbcommon-0.4.2
xkbcommon-0.4.3
xkbcommon-0.5.0
xkbcommon-0.6.0
xkbcommon-0.6.1
xkbcommon-0.7.0
xkbcommon-0.7.1
xkbcommon-0.7.2
xkbcommon-0.8.0

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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