Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nasm  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1910-NASM-582565
  • published20 Mar 2018
  • disclosed20 Mar 2018

Introduced: 20 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-8883  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.10.

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 buffer over-read in the parse_line function in asm/parser.c via uncontrolled access to nasm_reg_flags.