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CVE-2018-15853

Endless recursion exists in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon and libxkbcommon before 0.8.1, which could be used by local attackers to crash xkbco

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Summary

Endless recursion exists in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon and libxkbcommon before 0.8.1, which could be used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon users by supplying a crafted keymap file that triggers boolean negation.

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Affected versions

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References 6

security.gentoo.org

usn.ubuntu.com

lists.freedesktop.org

GitHub · xkbcommon/libxkbcommon

access.redhat.com