Mageia alert MGASA-2025-0321 (xkbcomp)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2025-0321: Updated xkbcomp packages fix security vulnerabilities
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MGASA-2025-0321 - Updated xkbcomp packages fix security vulnerabilities

Publication date: 04 Dec 2025
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2025-0321.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 9
CVE: CVE-2018-15853,
     CVE-2018-15859,
     CVE-2018-15861,
     CVE-2018-15863

Description:
Endless recursion in xkbcomp/expr.c resulting in a crash.
(CVE-2018-15853)
NULL pointer dereference when parsing invalid atoms in ExprResolveLhs
resulting in a crash. (CVE-2018-15859)
NULL pointer dereference in ExprResolveLhs resulting in a crash.
(CVE-2018-15861)
NULL pointer dereference in ResolveStateAndPredicate resulting in a
crash. (CVE-2018-15863)

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34796
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/12/03/1
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1...
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-1...

SRPMS:
- 9/core/xkbcomp-1.4.6-1.1.mga9