NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting yasm/yasm package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.04% (10th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-YASMYASM-10380935
  • published18 Jun 2025
  • disclosed29 May 2025
  • creditTimChan2001

Introduced: 29 May 2025

CVE-2024-22653  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference via the yasm_section_bcs_append() function in section.c. An attacker can cause the application to crash by triggering a null pointer dereference.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1