NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting nasm package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.74% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-NASM-1408083
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed28 Jul 2020

Introduced: 28 Jul 2020

CVE-2020-24242  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 nasm.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nasm package and not the nasm package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.15rc10, SEGV can be triggered in tok_text in asm/preproc.c by accessing READ memory.

CVSS Base Scores

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