CVE-2018-15863

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Unchecked NULL pointer usage in ResolveStateAndPredicate in xkbcomp/compat.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 a no-op modmask expression.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-476

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079
https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/96df3106d49438e442510c59acad306e94f3db4dPatch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039243.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079
https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/96df3106d49438e442510c59acad306e94f3db4dPatch, Third Party Advisory
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039243.htmlMailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Aug 25, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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