Security Advisory

CVE-2018-15858

5.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

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.
Published Date August 25, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory