CVE-2018-15861 Information

Description

Unchecked NULL pointer usage in ExprResolveLhs in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon before 0.8.2 could be used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file that triggers an xkb_intern_atom failure.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079 https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/38e1766bc6e20108948aec8a0b222a4bad0254e9 https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039243.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5