NASM: Multiple vulnerabilities — GLSA 201903-19

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in NASM, the worst of which could result in the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Affected packages

dev-lang/nasm on all architectures
Affected versions < 2.14.02
Unaffected versions >= 2.14.02

Background

NASM is a 80x86 assembler that has been created for portability and modularity. NASM supports Pentium, P6, SSE MMX, and 3DNow extensions. It also supports a wide range of objects formats (ELF, a.out, COFF, etc), and has its own disassembler.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NASM. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All NASM users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/nasm-2.14.02"
 

References

Release date
March 28, 2019

Latest revision
March 28, 2019: 1

Severity
high

Exploitable
remote

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