| Name | CVE-2025-8846 |
| Description | A vulnerability has been found in NASM Netwide Assember 2.17rc0. Affected is the function parse_line of the file parser.c. The manipulation leads to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| nasm (PTS) | bullseye | 2.15.05-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 2.16.01-1 | vulnerable |
| forky, sid, trixie | 2.16.03-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| nasm | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | unimportant | | |
Notes
https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392938
Crash in CLI tool, no security impact