xkbcomp-1.5.0 (Xorg App)

[Douglas R. Reno]

New minor version

Release notes:

This releases contains the fixes for the issues reported in today's security
advisory: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2025-December/003644.html

* CVE-2018-15863
* CVE-2018-15861
* CVE-2018-15859
* CVE-2018-15853

Note that the year is not a typo, these CVEs have been reported previously for
libxkbcommon but the same code exists in xkbcomp and required the same fixes.

As a new feature in this version: xkbcomp now supports the meson build system
in addition to autotools. autotools support may be removed in a future version.

The full git shortlog for this release is below:

Alan Coopersmith (6):
      Assume target platforms have strcasecmp, strncasecmp, & strdup now
      Use _stricmp()/_strnicmp() instead of strcasecmp()/strncasecmp() on Windows
      Accept --help & --version as aliases to -help & -version
      Improve man page formatting
      man page: fix warnings from `mandoc -T lint`
      Make sure config.h is included before any system headers

Daniel Stone (3):
      xkbcomp: Don't crash on no-op modmask expressions
      xkbcomp: Don't falsely promise from ExprResolveLhs
      Fail expression lookup on invalid atoms

Matthieu Herrb (1):
      Symbols: resize the syms array when removing NoSymbol

Peter Hutterer (1):
      xkbcomp 1.5.0

Pierre Le Marre (12):
      Symbols: Fix out-of-bounds actions in MergeKeyGroups
      types: Fix warning for multiple map occurrences
      types: Fix typo in warning
      symbols: Fix NULL pointer dereference in MergeKeyGroups
      Add support for meson build
      Compare autotools and meson builds
      build: Fix meson linking order
      Fix various undefined behaviors
      parser: Fix whitespaces
      parser: Fix multiple keysyms per level parsing
      parser: Refactor multiple keysyms per level and add warning
      parser: Parse but discard multiple actions per level

Ran Benita (1):
      xkbcomp: fix stack overflow when evaluating boolean negation

... and the security advisory (note, 2018 is *not* a typo...)

======================================================================
X.Org Security Advisory: Wed 3, 2025 

Issues in xkbcomp prior to version 1.5.0
======================================================================

Multiple issues have been found in xkbcomp that have been previously
been published as CVEs in libxbkcommon. libxkbcommon is (to some degree)
a fork of xkbcomp and some of the code base is identical. These CVEs
were published earlier as:

- CVE-2018-15853: Endless recursion in xkbcomp/expr.c resulting in a 
crash
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xkbcomp/-/commit/da8367645
- CVE-2018-15859: NULL pointer dereference when parsing invalid atoms in 
ExprResolveLhs resulting in a crash
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xkbcomp/-/commit/895e080b2
- CVE-2018-15861: NULL pointer dereference in ExprResolveLhs resulting 
in a crash
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xkbcomp/-/commit/c34263540
- CVE-2018-15863: NULL pointer dereference in ResolveStateAndPredicate 
resulting in a crash
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/app/xkbcomp/-/commit/fa10dbc2c

These four issues also affect xkbcomp. As the issues have been
effectively public for a while, there is no embargo. xkbcomp 1.5.0 is
available now and contains these fixes.

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commits

4744854e31 Update to libxslt-1.1.45 (Security Update).
268d831a74 Update to xkbcomp-1.5.0 (Xorg App) (Security Update).

Leaving open for security advisories and reassigning.

[Douglas R. Reno]

SA-12.4-052 issued

[Bruce Dubbs]

Milestone renamed