Medium
nasm — security advisory
Stack-based buffer over-read in disasm in nasm 2.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).
- Products
- nasm
- Affected versions
- 2.16.01-1, 2.16.03-1, 3.01-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-38668
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 15:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Stack-based buffer over-read in disasm in nasm 2.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38668
nasm
Fixed versions: Not specified
nasm
Fixed versions: Not specified
nasm
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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