A Use After Free vulnerability in function new_Token in asm/preproc.c in nasm 2.14.02 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted nasm command.

This plugin has been deprecated as it does not adhere to established standards for this style of check.

The version of nasm installed on the remote host is prior to 2.15.03-3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2-2023-2277 advisory.

  - A Use After Free vulnerability in function new_Token in asm/preproc.c in nasm 2.14.02 allows attackers to     cause a denial of service via crafted nasm command. (CVE-2020-18780)

  - A Segmentation Fault issue discovered in in ieee_segment function in outieee.c in nasm 2.14.03 and 2.15     allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted assembly file. (CVE-2020-21528)

  - NASM v2.16 was discovered to contain a segmentation violation in the component ieee_write_file at     /output/outieee.c. (CVE-2022-46457)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
195779	RHEL 6 : nasm (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical
195742	RHEL 7 : nasm (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
182636	Amazon Linux 2 : nasm (ALAS-2023-2277)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2020-18780

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