CVE-2018-15855

EPSS 0.05%
Published 25.08.2018 21:29:01
Last modified 21.11.2024 03:51:34
Source cve@mitre.org
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Unchecked NULL pointer usage in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file, because the XkbFile for an xkb_geometry section was mishandled.

Affected products Warnungen 0 Metrics 3 CWE 1 References 9

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)

Xkbcommon Project ≫ Xkbcommon Version < 0.8.1

Canonical ≫ Ubuntu Linux Version14.04 SwEditionlts

Canonical ≫ Ubuntu Linux Version16.04 SwEditionlts

Canonical ≫ Ubuntu Linux Version18.04 SwEditionlts

Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.

EPSS Metriken
Type	Source	Score	Percentile
EPSS	FIRST.org	0.05%	0.133

CVSS Metriken
Source	Base Score	Exploit Score	Impact Score	Vector string
nvd@nist.gov	5.5	1.8	3.6	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov	2.1	3.9	2.9	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html

Third Party Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05

Third Party Advisory

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/

Third Party Advisory

https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/

Third Party Advisory

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/917636b1d0d70205a13f89062b95e3a0fc31d4ff

Patch

Third Party Advisory

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-15855

CVE Source (NVD)

https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2018-15855

CVE Source (JSON)

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2018-15855

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