Bug 1652027 (CVE-2018-19209)

Summary:	CVE-2018-19209 nasm: NULL pointer dereference in find_label in asm/labels.c
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Laura Pardo <lpardo>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	dominik, java-sig-commits, mizdebsk, nickc
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	nasm 2.14rc16	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed:	2018-11-23 13:15:19 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1652028
Bug Blocks:	1652048

Description Laura Pardo 2018-11-21 13:00:42 UTC

A flaw was found in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc15. A NULL pointer dereference in the function find_label in asm/labels.c that will lead to a DoS attack. 


References:
https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392522

Comment 1 Laura Pardo 2018-11-21 13:01:14 UTC

Created nasm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1652028]

Comment 2 Stefan Cornelius 2018-11-23 13:15:27 UTC

Statement:

This issue did not affect the versions of nasm as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6, and 7.