Use After Free Affecting libxkbcommon-x11-devel 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% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-LIBXKBCOMMONX11DEVEL-2759735
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed8 Nov 2018

Introduced: 8 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-15857  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 libxkbcommon-x11-devel to version 0.8.2-3.3.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxkbcommon-x11-devel package and not the libxkbcommon-x11-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.