Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 25, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-15855
CVE-2018-15855
Description
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 the XkbFile for an xkb_geometry section was mishandled.
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Affected products
5- osv-coords4 versionspkg:rpm/suse/libxkbcommon&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Module%20for%20Basesystem%2015pkg:rpm/suse/libxkbcommon&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libxkbcommon&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP5pkg:rpm/suse/libxkbcommon&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2012%20SP5
< 0.8.2-3.3.1+ 3 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0.8.2-3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.6.1-9.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.6.1-9.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.6.1-9.3.1
Patches
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References
6- github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/917636b1d0d70205a13f89062b95e3a0fc31d4ffnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
- lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/nvdThird Party Advisory
- usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/nvdThird Party Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079nvd
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