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DEBIAN-CVE-2018-15858

Unchecked NULL pointer usage when handling invalid aliases in CopyKeyAliasesToKeymap in xkbcomp/keycodes.c in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

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