PT-2018-18687 · Netwide+2 · Netwide Assembler+2

Jun · Published 2018-03-20 · Updated 2020-07-13 · CVE-2018-8881

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.3

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Netwide Assembler (NASM) version 2.13.02rc2

Description The issue is related to a heap-based buffer over-read in the tokenize function located in asm/preproc.c, which occurs due to an unterminated string.

Recommendations For Netwide Assembler (NASM) version 2.13.02rc2, consider avoiding the use of unterminated strings in the tokenize function until a patch is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Out of bounds Read

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-125

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-8881

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0952-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020:0954-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_0952-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2020_0954-1

SUSE-SU-2020:1843-1

USN-3694-1

Affected Products

Netwide Assembler

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 115

• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17816 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17816 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17817 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00017.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17814 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-10686 · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2018-01131 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17818 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17819 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-10686 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8881 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-8881 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-8881 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-8881 · Vendor Advisory