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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15854
Unchecked NULL pointer usage in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by su...
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Unchecked NULL pointer usage 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, because geometry tokens were desupported incorrectly.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV
Affected packages
Debian:12
libxkbcommon
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.8.2-1"}]}]
Debian:13
libxkbcommon
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.8.2-1"}]}]
Debian:14
libxkbcommon
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"0.8.2-1"}]}]
References
- advisory security-tracker.debian.org