Medium
Security advisory
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 geometry tokens were desupported incorrectly.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-15854
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:25 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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 geometry tokens were desupported incorrectly.
osv:CVE-2018-15854
Complete source record
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