CVE-2018-15864

Publication date

2018-08-25 21:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Unchecked NULL pointer usage in resolve_keysym in xkbcomp/parser.y in xkbcommon before 0.8.2 could be used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file, because a map access attempt can occur for a map that was never created.