CVE-2018-19755

NameCVE-2018-19755
DescriptionThere is an illegal address access at asm/preproc.c (function: is_mmacro) in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc16 that will cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds array access) because a certain conversion can result in a negative integer.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs915087

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
nasm (PTS)buster2.14-1vulnerable
bullseye2.15.05-1fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm2.16.01-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
nasmsource(unstable)2.15.02-1unimportant915087

Notes

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392528
https://github.com/netwide-assembler/nasm/commit/3079f7966dbed4497e36d5067cbfd896a90358cb
Crash in CLI tool, no security impact

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