Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nasm  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-NASM-5854855
  • published18 Sept 2025
  • disclosed22 Aug 2023

Introduced: 22 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-38668  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nasm package and not the nasm package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Stack-based buffer over-read in disasm in nasm 2.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).