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CVE-2018-8881

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.3 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: none known
• Published: 2018-03-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.13.02rc2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the function tokenize in asm/preproc.c, related to an unterminated string.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04
• NASM Netwide Assember: 2.13.02-rc2

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=3392446
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/
• 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=3392446
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/

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