CVE-2018-8881

Publication date 20 March 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

Score breakdown

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
nasm	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Fixed 2.13.01-2ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.11.08-1ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.10.09-1ubuntu0.1

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
nasm	Upstream: 3144e84

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.3 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.3 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3694-1
NASM vulnerabilities
28 June 2018

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-8881

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