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CVE-2018-20538

Published: 28 December 2018

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.

Notes

AuthorNote
mdeslaur
no fix as of 2019-04-25

Priority

Low

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
nasm
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
impish Ignored
(end of life)
groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
xenial Deferred
(2019-04-25)
jammy Deferred
(2019-04-25)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was deferred [2019-04-25])
bionic Deferred
(2019-04-25)
cosmic Ignored
(end of life)
disco Ignored
(end of life)
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Deferred
(2019-04-25)
trusty Does not exist
(trusty was deferred [2019-04-25])
upstream Needs triage

mantic Deferred
(2019-04-25)
lunar Ignored
(end of life, was deferred [2019-04-25])

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