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.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
182636	Amazon Linux 2 : nasm (ALAS-2023-2277)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	10/5/2023	10/6/2023	medium
195742	RHEL 7 : nasm (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/31/2024	high
195779	RHEL 6 : nasm (Unpatched Vulnerability) (deprecated)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	5/11/2024	5/31/2024	critical

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