CVE-2018-15853

libxkbcommon: xkbcomp: Endless recursion in xkbcomp/expr.c resulting in a crash

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.0

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Published · March 10, 2018

Updated · June 30, 2026

Description

An uncontrolled recursion flaw was found in libxkbcommon and xkbcomp in the way it parses boolean expressions. A specially crafted file provided to xkbcomp could crash the application.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 3.3
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-674 · Uncontrolled Recursion