UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15855

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

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / libxkbcommon

Package

Name: libxkbcommon
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxkbcommon@0.4.1-0ubuntu1.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.4.1-0ubuntu1.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.3.1-1

0.3.1-2

0.4.1-0ubuntu1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libxkbcommon-x11-0",
            "binary_version": "0.4.1-0ubuntu1.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libxkbcommon0",
            "binary_version": "0.4.1-0ubuntu1.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15855.json"

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / libxkbcommon

Package

Name: libxkbcommon
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxkbcommon@0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.5.0-1ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libxkbcommon-x11-0",
            "binary_version": "0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libxkbcommon0",
            "binary_version": "0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15855.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / libxkbcommon

Package

Name: libxkbcommon
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/libxkbcommon@0.8.0-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.8.0-1ubuntu0.1

Affected versions

0.*

0.7.1-2

0.8.0-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libxkbcommon-x11-0",
            "binary_version": "0.8.0-1ubuntu0.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libxkbcommon0",
            "binary_version": "0.8.0-1ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-15855.json"