CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2020-18780

Use After Free

Published: Aug 22, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.5 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
LOW

A Use After Free vulnerability in function new_Token in asm/preproc.c in nasm 2.14.02 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted nasm command.

Weakness

The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory “belongs” to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Netwide_assembler Nasm 2.14.02 (including) 2.14.02 (including)
Nasm Ubuntu bionic *
Nasm Ubuntu esm-apps/bionic *
Nasm Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Nasm Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *
Nasm Ubuntu focal *
Nasm Ubuntu lunar *
Nasm Ubuntu mantic *
Nasm Ubuntu oracular *
Nasm Ubuntu trusty *
Nasm Ubuntu upstream *
Nasm Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

References