Out-of-bounds Read Affecting nasm package, versions [2.13.01,2.15.05)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-NASM-10077759
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed25 Aug 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-24242  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nasm to version 2.15.05 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read. In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.15rc10, SEGV can be triggered in tok_text in asm/preproc.c by accessing READ memory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1