Description
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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n/a n/a
n/aaffected
References
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05 ↗
- https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/842e4351c2c97de6051cab6ce36b4a81e709a0e1 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/ ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/ ↗
- https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-devel/2018-August/039232.html ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079 ↗