Bugzilla will be upgraded to version 5.0 on a still to be determined date in the near future. The original upgrade date has been delayed.
Bug 1629990 - (CVE-2018-16999) CVE-2018-16999 nasm: Invalid memory write (segmentation fault) in expand_smacro in preproc.c
CVE-2018-16999 nasm: Invalid memory write (segmentation fault) in expand_smac...
Status: NEW
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
unspecified
All Linux
low Severity low
: ---
: ---
Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=low,public=20180913,reported=2...
: Security
Depends On: 1629991 1629992
Blocks: 1629993
  Show dependency treegraph
 
Reported: 2018-09-17 14:05 EDT by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2018-10-02 12:05 EDT (History)
3 users (show)

See Also:
Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:
Story Points: ---
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed:
Type: ---
Regression: ---
Mount Type: ---
Documentation: ---
CRM:
Verified Versions:
Category: ---
oVirt Team: ---
RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: ---


Attachments (Terms of Use)

  None (edit)
Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-17 14:05:21 EDT
Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc15 has an invalid memory write (segmentation fault) in expand_smacro in preproc.c, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted input file.

Upstream bug:

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392508
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-09-17 14:05:48 EDT
Created nasm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1629991]
Comment 3 Scott Gayou 2018-10-02 12:05:42 EDT
Unable to reproduce on RHEL 5-7.

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.