Stack-based Buffer Overflow Affecting nasm package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-NASM-1329363
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed18 Oct 2017

Introduced: 18 Oct 2017

CVE-2018-8882  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:8 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:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.13.02rc2 has a stack-based buffer under-read in the function ieee_shr in asm/float.c via a large shift value.