CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-15857

Use After Free

Published: Aug 25, 2018 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.3 MODERATE
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

An invalid free in ExprAppendMultiKeysymList in xkbcomp/ast-build.c in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon keymap parsers or possibly have unspecified other impact by supplying a crafted keymap file.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libxkbcommon Xkbcommon * 0.8.1 (excluding)
Xkbcommon Xkbcommon * 0.8.1 (excluding)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat gdm-1:3.28.2-16.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat libX11-0:1.6.7-2.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat libxkbcommon-0:0.7.1-3.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat mesa-libGLw-0:8.0.0-5.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat xorg-x11-drv-ati-0:19.0.1-2.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat xorg-x11-drv-vesa-0:2.4.0-3.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat xorg-x11-drv-wacom-0:0.36.1-3.el7 *
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RedHat xorg-x11-server-0:1.20.4-7.el7 *
Libxkbcommon Ubuntu bionic *
Libxkbcommon Ubuntu esm-infra/bionic *
Libxkbcommon Ubuntu esm-infra/xenial *
Libxkbcommon Ubuntu trusty *
Libxkbcommon Ubuntu upstream *
Libxkbcommon Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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