GLSA-202312-09 : NASM: Multiple Vulnerabilities

high Nessus Plugin ID 187216

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202312-09 (NASM: Multiple Vulnerabilities)

- In Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14.02, there is a use-after-free in paste_tokens in asm/preproc.c.
(CVE-2019-8343)

- 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 heap buffer overflow in the component quote_for_pmake() asm/nasm.c:856 (CVE-2022-44370)

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

Solution

All NASM users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-lang/nasm-2.16.01

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202312-09

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686720

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903755

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 187216

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202312-09.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Published: 12/22/2023

Updated: 12/22/2023

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-8343

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-44370

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:nasm, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/22/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/15/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-8343, CVE-2020-21528, CVE-2022-44370