CVE-2018-20538

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.8%

Medium (5.5) in nasm netwide assembler. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

5.5 medium

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

EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 56% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE: CWE-416
Published: 2018-12-28
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

nasm:netwide_assembler

References

https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392531
https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392531

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