CVE-2018-15857

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-15857
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-15857.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-15857
Downstream
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Published
2018-08-25T21:29:01.953Z
Modified
2026-05-17T11:54:51.406453489Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An invalid free in ExprAppendMultiKeysymList in xkbcomp/ast-build.c in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon keymap parsers or possibly have unspecified other impact by supplying a crafted keymap file.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "14.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:xkbcommon:xkbcommon:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "xkbcommon:xkbcommon",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "fixed": "0.8.1"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages