Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU46342

Input validation error in Netwide Assembler - CVE-2020-24242

Published: August 25, 2020 / Updated: September 8, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU46342

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 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-2020-24242

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerable software:
Netwide Assembler

Software vendor:
Netwide Assembler

Description

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

In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.15rc10, SEGV can be triggered in tok_text in asm/preproc.c by accessing READ memory.

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