Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU46304

Use-after-free in Netwide Assembler - CVE-2020-24241

Published: August 25, 2020 / Updated: September 7, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU46304

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-2020-24241

CWE-ID: CWE-416

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.

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.15rc10, there is heap use-after-free in saa_wbytes in nasmlib/saa.c.

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