CVE-2020-24978

9.8 criticalEPSS 1.4%

Critical (9.8) in nasm netwide assembler. EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In NASM 2.15.04rc3, there is a double-free vulnerability in pp_tokline asm/preproc.c. This is fixed in commit 8806c3ca007b84accac21dd88b900fb03614ceb7.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 71% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-415
Published: 2020-09-04
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=3392712
https://bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392712

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