Null pointer dereference in libxkbcommon - CVE-2018-15864

Vulnerability identifier: #VU15930

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 4.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-15864

CWE-ID: CWE-476

Exploitation vector: Local access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a local attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to NULL pointer usage condition by the resolve_keysym function, as defined in the xkbcomp/parser.y source code file. A local attacker can submit a specially crafted keymap file that submits malicious input to an affected system with a no-op modmaskexpression, trigger NULL pointer dereference and cause the application to crash.

libxkbcommon
Gentoo Linux
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12
SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Opensuse
libxkbcommon-x11-devel
libxkbcommon-devel
libxkbcommon-debugsource
libxkbcommon0
libxkbcommon-x11-0
libxkbcommon0-debuginfo
libxkbcommon-x11-0-debuginfo
libxkbcommon0-32bit
libxkbcommon0-debuginfo-32bit
libxkbcommon-x11-0-32bit
libxkbcommon-x11-0-debuginfo-32bit

Update to version 0.8.2.

libxkbcommon - update to 0.8.2
libxkbcommon-x11-devel - update to 0.6.1-9.3.1
libxkbcommon-devel - update to 0.6.1-9.3.1
libxkbcommon-debugsource - update to 0.6.1-9.3.1
libxkbcommon0 - update to 0.6.1-9.3.1
libxkbcommon-x11-0 - update to 0.6.1-9.3.1
libxkbcommon0-debuginfo - update to 0.6.1-9.3.1
libxkbcommon-x11-0-debuginfo - update to 0.6.1-9.3.1
libxkbcommon0-32bit - update to 0.6.1-9.3.1
libxkbcommon0-debuginfo-32bit - update to 0.6.1-9.3.1
libxkbcommon-x11-0-32bit - update to 0.6.1-9.3.1
libxkbcommon-x11-0-debuginfo-32bit - update to 0.6.1-9.3.1

• https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/a8ea7a1d3daa7bdcb877615ae0a252c189153bd2

• Denial of service in libxkbcommon
• OpenSUSE Linux update for libxkbcommon
• Gentoo update for xkbcommon
• Red Hat update for Xorg
• SUSE update for libxkbcommon