CVE-2018-15863

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions xkbcommon versions prior to 0.8.2

Description The issue is related to an unchecked NULL pointer usage in the ResolveStateAndPredicate function in xkbcomp/compat.c. This could be exploited by local attackers to crash the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file with a no-op modmask expression.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.8.2, update to version 0.8.2 or later to resolve the issue.