CVE-2018-20538

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.

CVSS v3.0

5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

0.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 54th percentile

Published

2018-12-28

Updated

2024-08-05

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392531

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2018-20535
• CVE-2018-20541
• CVE-2018-20526
• CVE-2018-20542
• CVE-2018-20525
• CVE-2018-20543