Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU37195

Division by zero in Netwide Assembler - CVE-2018-10016

Published: April 11, 2018 / Updated: August 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU37195

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-2018-10016

CWE-ID: CWE-369

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) 2.14rc0 has a division-by-zero vulnerability in the expr5 function in asm/eval.c via a malformed input file.

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