CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-15861

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Aug 25, 2018 | Modified: Aug 06, 2019
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Unchecked NULL pointer usage in ExprResolveLhs 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 that triggers an xkb_intern_atom failure.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Libxkbcommon Xkbcommon * 0.8.1 (including)
Xkbcommon Xkbcommon * 0.8.1 (including)
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 trusty *
Libxkbcommon Ubuntu upstream *
Libxkbcommon Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

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