Double Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package nasm  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU2010-NASM-1029559
  • published1 Nov 2020
  • disclosed4 Sept 2020

Introduced: 4 Sep 2020

CVE-2020-24978  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.10.

NVD Description

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

In NASM 2.15.04rc3, there is a double-free vulnerability in pp_tokline asm/preproc.c. This is fixed in commit 8806c3ca007b84accac21dd88b900fb03614ceb7.