xkbcommon: Multiple vulnerabilities

xkbcommon: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in xkbcommon, the worst of which may lead to a Denial of Service condition. libxkbcommon 2018-10-30 2018-10-30 665702 local 0.8.2 0.8.2

xkbcommon is a library to handle keyboard descriptions, including loading them from disk, parsing them and handling their state.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in libxkbcommon. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

A local attacker could supply a specially crafted keymap file possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All libxkbcommon users should upgrade to the latest version:


      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=x11-libs/libxkbcommon-0.8.2"

CVE-2018-15853 CVE-2018-15854 CVE-2018-15855 CVE-2018-15856 CVE-2018-15857 CVE-2018-15858 CVE-2018-15859 CVE-2018-15861 CVE-2018-15862 CVE-2018-15863 CVE-2018-15864 whissi whissi