CVE - CVE-2018-15861

CVE-ID
CVE-2018-15861	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
Unchecked NULL pointer usage 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 that triggers an xkb_intern_atom failure.
References
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GENTOO:GLSA-201810-05 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05 MISC:https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/38e1766bc6e20108948aec8a0b222a4bad0254e9 MISC:https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039243.html REDHAT:RHSA-2019:2079 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079 UBUNTU:USN-3786-1 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/ UBUNTU:USN-3786-2 URL:https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20180824	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20180824)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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