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CVE-2018-15856

CVE-2018-15856

EPSS 0.4%
An infinite loop when reaching EOL unexpectedly in compose/parser.c (aka the keymap parser) in xkbcommon before 0.8.1 could be used by local attackers to cause a denial of service during parsing of crafted keymap files.
Affected products
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References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/842e4351c2c97de6051cab6ce36b4a81e709a0e1https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.htmlhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/