CVE-2018-15853 (GCVE-0-2018-15853)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-08-25 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:10
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Endless recursion exists in xkbcomp/expr.c in xkbcommon and libxkbcommon before 0.8.1, which could be used by local attackers to crash xkbcommon users by supplying a crafted keymap file that triggers boolean negation.
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
6 references
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|---|---|
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201810-05 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3786-2/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/wayland-de… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon/commit/… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2079 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
Date Public
2018-08-25 00:00
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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