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CVE-2018-16517

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

Description

asm/labels.c in Netwide Assembler (NASM) is prone to NULL Pointer Dereference, which allows the attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

Affected products

• NASM Netwide Assember: through 2.13.03; 2.14-rc15, 2.14.0-rc1, 2.14.0-rc10, 2.14.0-rc11, 2.14.0-rc12, 2.14.0-rc13 (+9)

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00017.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152566/Netwide-Assembler-NASM-2.14rc15-Null-Pointer-Dereference.html
• https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392513
• https://fakhrizulkifli.github.io/CVE-2018-16517.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46726/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00017.html
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/152566/Netwide-Assembler-NASM-2.14rc15-Null-Pointer-Dereference.html
• https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392513
• https://fakhrizulkifli.github.io/CVE-2018-16517.html
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46726/

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