CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-19209

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Nov 12, 2018 | Modified: Dec 13, 2018
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
3.3 LOW
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
NEGLIGIBLE

Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc15 has a NULL pointer dereference in the function find_label in asm/labels.c that will lead to a DoS attack.

Weakness

A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Netwide_assembler Nasm 2.14.0-rc15 (including) 2.14.0-rc15 (including)
Nasm Ubuntu bionic *
Nasm Ubuntu cosmic *
Nasm Ubuntu devel *
Nasm Ubuntu eoan *
Nasm Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Nasm Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Nasm Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Nasm Ubuntu esm-apps/noble *
Nasm Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Nasm Ubuntu focal *
Nasm Ubuntu groovy *
Nasm Ubuntu hirsute *
Nasm Ubuntu impish *
Nasm Ubuntu jammy *
Nasm Ubuntu kinetic *
Nasm Ubuntu lunar *
Nasm Ubuntu mantic *
Nasm Ubuntu noble *
Nasm Ubuntu oracular *
Nasm Ubuntu trusty *
Nasm Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References