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Fencer Vulns
high 7.3

CVE-2018-8881 json

Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.13.02rc2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the function tokenize in asm/preproc.c, related to an unterminated…

published 2018-03-20 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-20489

cvss
7.3
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 65%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.13.02rc2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the function tokenize in asm/preproc.c, related to an unterminated string.

Patch / fix

  • nasm Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.13.02-0.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2018-8881

  • nasm Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.10.09-1ubuntu0.1
  • nasm Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 2.11.08-1ubuntu0.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2018-8881

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • nasm SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP2, SLE Module for Development Tools 15 SP1 2.14.02-3.4.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2020:1843-1

  • nasm openSUSE Leap 15.2 2.14.02-lp152.4.3.1
  • nasm openSUSE Leap 15.1 2.14.02-lp151.3.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2020:0954-1openSUSE-SU-2020:0952-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2018-8881 updated cvss 3.3

nasm: Heap overflow in function tokenize in asm/preproc.c

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 nasm, nasm-rdoff Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 nasm, nasm-rdoff
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 nasm Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 nasm
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 65% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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