Bug 1570495 (CVE-2018-10254)

Summary: CVE-2018-10254 nasm: Stack-based buffer over-read in disasm/disasm.c:disasm() can allow attackers to cause a denial of service
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dominik, java-sig-commits, mizdebsk
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Bug Depends On: 1570496, 1570497, 1571868    
Bug Blocks: 1570498    

Description Sam Fowler 2018-04-23 05:51:14 UTC
Netwide Assembler (nasm) through version 2.13 is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer over-read in the disasm/disasm.c:disasm() function. An attacker could exploit this to cause a crash or other unspecified impact via a crafted ELF file.


Upstream Issue:

https://sourceforge.net/p/nasm/bugs/561/

Comment 1 Sam Fowler 2018-04-23 05:52:14 UTC
Created nasm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1570497]

Comment 3 Scott Gayou 2018-04-25 13:14:08 UTC
Upstream Bugzilla Bug:
https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392475