Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU36432

Input validation error in Netwide Assembler - CVE-2018-19213

Published: November 12, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU36432

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-19213

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: Netwide Assembler

Affected software:
Netwide Assembler

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14rc16 has memory leaks that may lead to DoS, related to nasm_malloc in nasmlib/malloc.c.

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