CVE-2008-2719

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-06-16 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Off-by-one error in the ppscan function (preproc.c) in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.02 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted file that triggers a stack-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

NASM Netwide Assember: 2.02

References

http://repo.or.cz/w/nasm.git?a=commit%3Bh=76ec8e73db16f4cf1453a142d03bcc74d528f72f
http://secunia.com/advisories/30594
http://secunia.com/advisories/32059
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:120
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/11/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/11/5
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29656
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020259
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-648-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1811
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42995
https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=6208&release_id=606115

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