CVE-2018-19209: Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc15 has a NULL pointer dereference in the function find_label in asm/labels.c that will lead to a DoS attack

Medium severity · published Nov 12, 2018

CVE-2018-19209

Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc15 has a NULL pointer dereference in the function find_label in asm/labels.c that will lead to a DoS attack

5.5

CVSS

0.8%

EPSS

On KEV

Description

Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc15 has a NULL pointer dereference in the function find_label in asm/labels.c that will lead to a DoS attack.

CVSS vector

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

Attack vector

Local

Complexity

Low

Privileges

None

User interaction

Required

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 56% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

Netwide Assembler · Nasm

2.14.0 · source: NVD

Affected product

Netwide Assembler

Nasm

All Netwide Assembler CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-19209

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-19209

Issue Tracking

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1115797

Patch

https://repo.or.cz/nasm.git/commitdiff/e996d28c70d45008085322b442b44a9224308548