Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libxkbcommon  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1810-LIBXKBCOMMON-614385
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed25 Aug 2018

Introduced: 25 Aug 2018

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

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libxkbcommon package and not the libxkbcommon package as distributed by Ubuntu.

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.