CVE-2018-8881

Publication date 20 March 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.3 · High

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
nasm 18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful
Fixed 2.13.01-2ubuntu0.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.11.08-1ubuntu0.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 2.10.09-1ubuntu0.1

Patch details

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Package Patch details
nasm

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.3 · High
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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