Bug 2208611 (CVE-2023-31975) - CVE-2023-31975 yasm: memory leak in yasm_intnum_copy() in libyasm/intnum.c
Summary: CVE-2023-31975 yasm: memory leak in yasm_intnum_copy() in libyasm/intnum.c
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-31975
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2208612 2208613 2208622 2208623
Blocks: 2196620
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Reported: 2023-05-19 18:00 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2023-07-07 08:34 UTC (History)
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-05-19 18:00:35 UTC 
yasm v1.3.0 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the function yasm_intnum_copy at /libyasm/intnum.c.

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https://github.com/yasm/yasm/issues/210
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-05-19 18:00:52 UTC 
Created yasm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2208613]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2208612]
Comment 3 Siddhesh Poyarekar 2023-05-19 19:32:10 UTC 
This should be rejected as per yasm security policy, unless there's a way this could be exploited using *trusted* input:

https://github.com/yasm/yasm/blob/master/SECURITY.md
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