CVE-2021-33450 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime in Netwide Assembler

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime6 documents6 sources
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 85.55%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Nasm Netwide AssemblerDebian NasmMsrc Azl3 Nasm 2.16.01-1 ON Azure Linux 3.0+1 more
Timeline
PublishedJul 26
Latest updateJul 27

Description

An issue was discovered in NASM version 2.16rc0. There are memory leaks in nasm_calloc() in nasmlib/alloc.c.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶debiandebian/nasm

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-jp9m-h4rc-45p2: An issue was discovered in NASM version 2↗2022-07-27
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OSV
CVE-2021-33450: An issue was discovered in NASM version 2↗2022-07-26
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Microsoft
An issue was discovered in NASM version 2.16rc0. There are memory leaks in nasm_calloc() in nasmlib/alloc.c.↗2022-07-12
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Red Hat
nasm: memory leak in nasm_calloc() in nasmlib/alloc.c↗2021-05-19
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Debian
CVE-2021-33450: nasm - An issue was discovered in NASM version 2.16rc0. There are memory leaks in nasm_...↗2021
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