Nasm
CVE-2023-38668
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
ASVS 5.0
V15 - Secure Coding and Architecture Bounds checking, read limits
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Collection The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Impact | CVSS score of 5.5 (MEDIUM). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, no privileges required, user interaction required. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | A local attacker with access to the system could read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries. No authentication is required to exploit this vulnerability. |
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Stack-based buffer over-read in disasm in nasm 2.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash). Rated medium severity (CVSS 5.5), this vulnerability is no authentication required, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
RemediationAI
No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Validate array indices and buffer lengths. Use memory-safe languages. Enable AddressSanitizer during testing.
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This vulnerability is classified as Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125), which allows attackers to read data from memory outside the intended buffer boundaries. Stack-based buffer over-read in disasm in nasm 2.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash). Affected products include: Nasm Netwide Assembler.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
Stack-based buffer over-read in disasm in nasm 2.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).
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Attack Technique
A buffer overflow occurs when a program writes more data to a memory buffer than it was allocated to hold, causing the excess data to spill into adjacent memory regions.
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
In NASM 2.15.04rc3, there is a double-free vulnerability in pp_tokline asm/preproc.c. Rated critical severity (CVSS 9.8)
In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there are multiple heap use after free vulnerabilities in the tool nasm. Rated high
There exists a heap buffer overflow in nasm 2.16.02rc1 (GitHub commit: b952891). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vu
In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14.02, there is a use-after-free in paste_tokens in asm/preproc.c. Rated high severity (CV
Netwide Assembler (NASM) before 2.13.02 has a use-after-free in detoken at asm/preproc.c. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8)
Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc16 has a heap-based buffer over-read in expand_mmac_params in asm/preproc.c for the speci
Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc15 has a heap-based buffer over-read in expand_mmac_params in asm/preproc.c for insuffici
Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.13 has a stack-based buffer over-read in the disasm function of the disasm/disasm.c file. Rat
In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is a heap-based buffer over-read that will cause a remote denial of service a
NASM up to version 3.02rc5 contains a heap use-after-free vulnerability in response file (-@) processing that allows rem
In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in the function find_cc() in asm/preproc.c that
In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc0, there is an illegal address access in is_mmacro() in asm/preproc.c that will cause
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