Denial of Service Vulnerability in xkbcommon Keymap Parser

CVE-2018-15856 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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