CVE-2018-8881

HIGH

Netwide Assembler (NASM) <2.13.02rc2 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392446
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3
EPSS 0.0022
EPSS Percentile 43.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (2)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
nasm/netwide_assembler 2.13.02 rc2
Published Mar 20, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026