CVE-2018-20538: Use After Free

December 28, 2018 (updated January 10, 2019)

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

References

bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392531
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-20538

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