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CVE-2018-15858

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Unchecked NULL pointer usage when handling invalid aliases in CopyKeyAliasesToKeymap in xkbcomp/keycodes.c 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.

Date published : 2018-08-25

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05

https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/badb428e63387140720f22486b3acbd3d738859f

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