Use After Free Affecting nasm package, versions [0,2.15.05rc1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NASM-2317922
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed25 Aug 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-24241  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nasm to version 2.15.05rc1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.15rc10, there is heap use-after-free in saa_wbytes in nasmlib/saa.c.

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