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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-15858): libxkbcommon vulnerabilities

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Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Aug 25, 2018
Added
Oct 17, 2018
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

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.

Solutions

ubuntu-upgrade-libxkbcommon-x11-0ubuntu-upgrade-libxkbcommon0

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