Out-of-bounds Write Affecting nasm package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-NASM-10077735
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed13 Sept 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-16999  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for nasm.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write. Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc15 has an invalid memory write (segmentation fault) in expand_smacro in preproc.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted input file.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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