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CVE-2018-19215 (GCVE-0-2018-19215)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-11-12 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:30
VLAI
Summary
Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc16 has a heap-based buffer over-read in expand_mmac_params in asm/preproc.c for the special cases of the % and $ and ! characters.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2018-11-12 00:00
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