Medium
nasm — security advisory
nasm version 2.14.01rc5, 2.15 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in asm/stdscan.c:130 that can result in Stack-overflow caused by triggering endless macro generation, crash the program. This attack appear to be exploitable via a crafted nasm input file.
- Products
- nasm
- Affected versions
- 2.16.01-1, 2.16.03-1, 3.01-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-1000886
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 00:51 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
nasm version 2.14.01rc5, 2.15 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in asm/stdscan.c:130 that can result in Stack-overflow caused by triggering endless macro generation, crash the program. This attack appear to be exploitable via a crafted nasm input file.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000886
nasm
Fixed versions: Not specified
nasm
Fixed versions: Not specified
nasm
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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