Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 28, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-20538

Description

There is a use-after-free at asm/preproc.c (function pp_getline) in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc16 that will cause a denial of service during certain finishes tests.

Affected products

Nasm/NASMinferred
Range: =2.14rc16
Netwide Assembler (NASM)/NASMllm-fuzzy
Range: = 2.14rc16

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory

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