CVE-2018-15855

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CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

EPSS

<1%p36

Published

Aug 25, 2018 (Aug 25, 2018)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

Unchecked NULL pointer usage in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file, because the XkbFile for an xkb_geometry section was mishandled.

Vendors: xkbcommon project canonical
Products: xkbcommon, ubuntu linux
Weakness: CWE-476
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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