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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-15853: Vulnerability in xkbcommon

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2018-15853: Vulnerability in xkbcommon

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
08/25/2018
Created
01/20/2021
Added
01/19/2021
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

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.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-image-editor-bitmap-1-0-9-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-graphics-cogl-1-22-4-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-library-graphics-pixman-0-38-4-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-x11-diagnostic-x11-info-clients-7-7-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-x11-font-utilities-7-7-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-x11-library-libfontenc-1-1-4-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-x11-library-libice-1-0-10-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-x11-library-libxi-1-7-10-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-x11-library-libxkbcommon-0-8-4-11-4-17-0-1-1-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-x11-session-sessreg-1-1-2-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-x11-session-xauth-1-1-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-x11-x11-server-utilities-7-7-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-x11-xclock-1-0-9-11-4-21-0-1-69-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-x11-xt-resource-utilities-7-7-11-4-21-0-1-69-0

References

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