NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting nasm package, versions [2.14,2.15)


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-2317928
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed24 Jul 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-14248  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade nasm to version 2.15 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. In libnasm.a in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14.xx, asm/pragma.c allows a NULL pointer dereference in process_pragma, search_pragma_list, and nasm_set_limit when "%pragma limit" is mishandled.

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