Resource Exhaustion Affecting xkbcomp package, versions <1.5.0-r0
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- published5 Dec 2025
- disclosed25 Aug 2018
Introduced: 25 Aug 2018
CVE-2018-15853 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.20 xkbcomp to version 1.5.0-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream xkbcomp package and not the xkbcomp package as distributed by Alpine.
See How to fix? for Alpine:3.20 relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
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/