Medium
Security advisory
Endless recursion exists in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon and libxkbcommon before 0.8.1, which could be used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon users by supplying a crafted keymap file that triggers boolean negation.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-15853
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:11 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Endless recursion exists in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon and libxkbcommon before 0.8.1, which could be used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon users by supplying a crafted keymap file that triggers boolean negation.
osv:CVE-2018-15853
Complete source record
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