Yasm v1.3.0.78 was found prone to NULL Pointer Dereference in /libyasm/intnum.c and /elf/elf.c, which allows the attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted file.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has one or more packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability that has been acknowledged by the vendor but will not be patched.

  - yasm: SEGV in yasm/libyasm/intnum.c in function yasm_intnum_copy() (CVE-2023-37732)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied on the package manager's report that the package is installed.

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

The version of yasm installed on the remote host is prior to 1.2.0-4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2GRAPHICSMAGICK1.3-2023-002 advisory.

    Yasm v1.3.0.78 was found prone to NULL Pointer Dereference in /libyasm/intnum.c and /elf/elf.c, which     allows the attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. (CVE-2023-37732)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2023-2023-275 advisory.

    Yasm v1.3.0.78 was found prone to NULL Pointer Dereference in /libyasm/intnum.c and /elf/elf.c, which     allows the attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted file. (CVE-2023-37732)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the tested product security advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
199728	RHEL 8 : yasm (Unpatched Vulnerability)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
196459	RHEL 7 : yasm (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
189343	Amazon Linux 2 : yasm (ALASGRAPHICSMAGICK1.3-2023-002)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
179776	Amazon Linux 2023 : yasm, yasm-devel (ALAS2023-2023-275)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium

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