CVE-2018-15856
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15856
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-15856.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-15856
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2018-08-25T21:29:01.860Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-22T01:23:36.065156Z
- Severity
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- 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
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An infinite loop when reaching EOL unexpectedly in compose/parser.c (aka the keymap parser) in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to cause a denial of service during parsing of crafted keymap files.
- References
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- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079
- https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/842e4351c2c97de6051cab6ce36b4a81e709a0e1
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/
- https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/842e4351c2c97de6051cab6ce36b4a81e709a0e1
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html
Affected packages
Git / github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed