CVE-2018-8881 — Out-of-bounds Read in Nasm

CWE-125 — Out-of-bounds ReadCWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow7 documents7 sources
Severity
7.3HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 55.95%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
NasmDebian NasmCanonical Ubuntu Linux+1 more
Timeline
PublishedMar 20
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.13.02rc2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the function tokenize in asm/preproc.c, related to an unterminated string.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.3 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶debiandebian/nasm< nasm 2.13.02-0.1 (bookworm)
▶Debiannasm/nasm< 2.13.02-0.1+3

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 14.04

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-x2vw-jwp7-h598: Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2018-8881: Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2↗2018-03-20
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
NASM vulnerabilities↗2018-06-28
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Debian
CVE-2018-8881: nasm - Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.13.02rc2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the fun...↗2018
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Red Hat
nasm: Heap overflow in function tokenize in asm/preproc.c↗2017-10-18
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-8881 nasm: Heap overflow in function tokenize in asm/preproc.c↗2018-03-23
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