Resource Exhaustion Affecting libxkbcommon0 package, versions <0.8.2-3.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBXKBCOMMON0-2760955
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed8 Nov 2018

Introduced: 8 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-15853  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libxkbcommon0 to version 0.8.2-3.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxkbcommon0 package and not the libxkbcommon0 package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 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.