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 xkbcommon users...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Fix status by distribution

Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE

Alpine Linux ALPINE-CVE-2018-15853 xkbcomp Fixed in: 1.5.0-r0
Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15853 libxkbcommon Fixed in: 0.8.2-1

References

advisory access.redhat.com
advisory security.gentoo.org
advisory usn.ubuntu.com
advisory usn.ubuntu.com
patch github.com
patch lists.freedesktop.org