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CVE-2018-16999

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-09-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc15 has an invalid memory write (segmentation fault) in expand_smacro in preproc.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted input file.

Affected products

• NASM Netwide Assember: 12.14-rc15

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00017.html
• https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392508
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00017.html
• https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392508

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