There exists a heap buffer overflow in nasm 2.16.02rc1 (GitHub commit: b952891).

An update of the nasm package has been released.

The remote Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-8248-1 advisory.

    Daisy Chen discovered that NASM was vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when handling certain input. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NASM to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or     possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-31722)

    It was discovered that NASM incorrectly handled memory allocation. An attacker could possibly use this     issue to cause NASM to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected     Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-33452, CVE-2021-33450)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the nasm packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

    There exists a heap buffer overflow in nasm 2.16.02rc1 (GitHub commit: b952891).(CVE-2023-31722)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS nasm security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - There exists a heap buffer overflow in nasm 2.16.02rc1 (GitHub commit: b952891). (CVE-2023-31722)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
375060	Photon OS 5.0: Nasm PHSA-2026-5.0-91-0925	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	medium
333993	Photon OS 5.0: Nasm PHSA-2026-5.0-92-0925	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	Local	medium
314203	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS : NASM vulnerabilities (USN-8248-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	high
301638	EulerOS 2.0 SP13 : nasm (EulerOS-SA-2026-1290)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	Local	high
301606	EulerOS 2.0 SP13 : nasm (EulerOS-SA-2026-1254)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	Local	high
250581	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-31722	Nessus	Misc.	Local	high

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