Use After Free Affecting nasm package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-NASM-2317942
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed28 Dec 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Dec 2018

CVE-2018-20538  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for nasm.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free. There is a use-after-free at asm/preproc.c (function pp_getline) in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc16 that will cause a denial of service during certain finishes tests.

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