Name | CVE-2018-15858 |
Description | Unchecked NULL pointer usage when handling invalid aliases in CopyKeyAliasesToKeymap in xkbcomp/keycodes.c 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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Debian Bugs | 907302 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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libxkbcommon (PTS) | bullseye | 1.0.3-2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 1.5.0-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1.6.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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libxkbcommon | source | (unstable) | 0.8.2-1 | low | | 907302 |
Notes
[stretch] - libxkbcommon <ignored> (Minor issue)
[jessie] - libxkbcommon <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/badb428e63387140720f22486b3acbd3d738859f
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html