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CVE-2018-15863

Unchecked NULL pointer usage in ResolveStateAndPredicate in xkbcomp/compat.c in xkbcommon before 0.8.2 could be used by local attackers to c

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Summary

Unchecked NULL pointer usage in ResolveStateAndPredicate in xkbcomp/compat.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 with a no-op modmask expression.

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Affected versions

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References 6

security.gentoo.org

lists.freedesktop.org

GitHub · xkbcommon/libxkbcommon

usn.ubuntu.com

access.redhat.com