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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-NASM-613233
  • published20 Mar 2018
  • disclosed20 Mar 2018

Introduced: 20 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-8881  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

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

Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.13.02rc2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the function tokenize in asm/preproc.c, related to an unterminated string.