SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : nasm (SUSE-SU-2020:1843-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 138316

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Description

This update for nasm fixes the following issues :

nasm was updated to version 2.14.02.

This allows building of Mozilla Firefox 78ESR and also contains lots of bugfixes, security fixes and improvements.

Fix crash due to multiple errors or warnings during the code generation pass if a list file is specified.

Create all system-defined macros defore processing command-line given preprocessing directives (-p, -d, -u, --pragma, --before).

If debugging is enabled, define a __DEBUG_FORMAT__ predefined macro.
See section 4.11.7.

Fix an assert for the case in the obj format when a SEG operator refers to an EXTERN symbol declared further down in the code.

Fix a corner case in the floating-point code where a binary, octal or hexadecimal floating-point having at least 32, 11, or 8 mantissa digits could produce slightly incorrect results under very specific conditions.

Support -MD without a filename, for gcc compatibility. -MF can be used to set the dependencies output filename. See section 2.1.7.

Fix -E in combination with -MD. See section 2.1.21.

Fix missing errors on redefined labels; would cause convergence failure instead which is very slow and not easy to debug.

Duplicate definitions of the same label with the same value is now explicitly permitted (2.14 would allow it in some circumstances.)

Add the option --no-line to ignore %line directives in the source. See section 2.1.33 and section 4.10.1.

Changed -I option semantics by adding a trailing path separator unconditionally.

Fixed null dereference in corrupted invalid single line macros.

Fixed division by zero which may happen if source code is malformed.

Fixed out of bound access in processing of malformed segment override.

Fixed out of bound access in certain EQU parsing.

Fixed buffer underflow in float parsing.

Added SGX (Intel Software Guard Extensions) instructions.

Added +n syntax for multiple contiguous registers.

Fixed subsections_via_symbols for macho object format.

Added the --gprefix, --gpostfix, --lprefix, and --lpostfix command line options, to allow command line base symbol renaming. See section 2.1.28.

Allow label renaming to be specified by %pragma in addition to from the command line. See section 6.9.

Supported generic %pragma namespaces, output and debug. See section 6.10.

Added the --pragma command line option to inject a %pragma directive.
See section 2.1.29.

Added the --before command line option to accept preprocess statement before input. See section 2.1.30.

Added AVX512 VBMI2 (Additional Bit Manipulation), VNNI (Vector Neural Network), BITALG (Bit Algorithm), and GFNI (Galois Field New Instruction) instructions.

Added the STATIC directive for local symbols that should be renamed using global-symbol rules. See section 6.8.

Allow a symbol to be defined as EXTERN and then later overridden as GLOBAL or COMMON. Furthermore, a symbol declared EXTERN and then defined will be treated as GLOBAL. See section 6.5.

The GLOBAL directive no longer is required to precede the definition of the symbol.

Support private_extern as macho specific extension to the GLOBAL directive. See section 7.8.5.

Updated UD0 encoding to match with the specification

Added the --limit-X command line option to set execution limits. See section 2.1.31.

Updated the Codeview version number to be aligned with MASM.

Added the --keep-all command line option to preserve output files. See section 2.1.32.

Added the --include command line option, an alias to -P (section 2.1.18).

Added the --help command line option as an alias to -h (section 3.1).

Added -W, -D, and -Q suffix aliases for RET instructions so the operand sizes of these instructions can be encoded without using o16, o32 or o64.

New upstream version 2.13.03 :

Add flags: AES, VAES, VPCLMULQDQ

Add VPCLMULQDQ instruction

elf: Add missing dwarf loc section

documentation updates

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

To install this SUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or 'zypper patch'.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product :

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP2 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP2-2020-1843=1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Development Tools 15-SP1 :

zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-SP1-2020-1843=1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 138316

File Name: suse_SU-2020-1843-1.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 7/9/2020

Updated: 5/12/2022

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8881

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-8883

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nasm, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nasm-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:nasm-debugsource

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1000667, CVE-2018-10016, CVE-2018-10254, CVE-2018-10316, CVE-2018-16382, CVE-2018-16517, CVE-2018-16999, CVE-2018-19214, CVE-2018-19215, CVE-2018-19216, CVE-2018-8881, CVE-2018-8882, CVE-2018-8883

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