Bug 2208608 (CVE-2023-31974) - CVE-2023-31974 yasm: use-after-free in error() in modules/preprocs/nasm/nasm-pp.c
Summary: CVE-2023-31974 yasm: use-after-free in error() in modules/preprocs/nasm/nasm-...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-31974
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2208609 2208610 2208620 2208621
Blocks: 2196620
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Reported: 2023-05-19 18:00 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2023-07-07 08:32 UTC (History)
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-05-19 18:00:23 UTC 
yasm v1.3.0 was discovered to contain a use after free via the function error at /nasm/nasm-pp.c.

Reference:
https://github.com/yasm/yasm/issues/208
Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2023-05-19 18:00:41 UTC 
Created yasm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 2208610]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 2208609]
Comment 3 Siddhesh Poyarekar 2023-05-19 19:31:59 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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