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CVE-2018-16517

Published: 6 September 2018

asm/labels.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) is prone to NULL Pointer Dereference, which allows the attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Priority

Negligible

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
nasm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic Needed

cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Not vulnerable
(2.14-1)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Needed

groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Needed

kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
lunar Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
mantic Needed

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was needed)
upstream Needs triage

xenial Needed

Patches:
upstream: https://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commit/e996d28c70d45008085322b442b44a9224308548

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.5
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H