CVE-2018-15853

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.5 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-08-25

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Libxkbcommon (Xkbcommon)
• Xkbcommon (Xkbcommon)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079
• https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/1f9d1248c07cda8aaff762429c0dce146de8632a
• https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/