Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-20538 - Use After Free vulnerability in Nasm Netwide Assembler 2.14.0

047910
CVSS 5.5 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
local
low complexity
nasm
CWE-416

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Nasm
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)