Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:2018158590000000
Revision Date:2018-08-25Version:1
Title:CVE-2018-15859 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - medium.
Description:Unchecked NULL pointer usage when parsing invalid atoms in ExprResolveLhs in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon before 0.8.2 could be used by local attackers to crash (NULL pointer dereference) the xkbcommon parser by supplying a crafted keymap file, because lookup failures are mishandled.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2018-15859
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
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Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND libxkbcommon package in xenial was vulnerable but has been fixed (note: '0.5.0-1ubuntu2.1').
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