PT-2018-14864 · Netwide · Netwide Assembler

Robert Frohl · Published 2018-11-12 · Updated 2018-12-13 · CVE-2018-19209

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Netwide Assembler (NASM) version 2.14rc15

Description The issue is related to a NULL pointer dereference in the find label function located in asm/labels.c. This can lead to a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Recommendations For Netwide Assembler (NASM) version 2.14rc15, consider avoiding the use of the find label function until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to the asm/labels.c module to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-19209

Affected Products

Netwide Assembler

References · 9

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-19209 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19209 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19209 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19209 · Vendor Advisory
• https://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commitdiff/e996d28c70d45008085322b442b44a9224308548 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2018-19209 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19209 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19209 · Security Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115797 · Note