Security Advisory

CVE-2018-15862

5.5
MEDIUM

Vulnerability Description

Unchecked NULL pointer usage in LookupModMask 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 with invalid virtual modifiers.
Published Date August 25, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory