CVE-2018-15853

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

0.54%

Published

Aug 25, 2018

Modified

Nov 21, 2024

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

Affected Products (5)

xkbcommon · libxkbcommon (up to 0.8.1)vulnerable

xkbcommon · xkbcommon (up to 0.8.1)vulnerable

canonical · ubuntu_linuxvulnerable

References (12)

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/1f9d1248c07cda8aaff762429c0dce146de8632a

PatchThird Party Advisory

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html

Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05

Third Party Advisory

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/

Third Party Advisory

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/

Third Party Advisory

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/1f9d1248c07cda8aaff762429c0dce146de8632a

PatchThird Party Advisory

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html

Mailing ListPatchThird Party Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05

Third Party Advisory

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/

Third Party Advisory

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/

Third Party Advisory

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