CVE-2018-8881: Out-of-bounds Read

March 20, 2018 (updated July 13, 2020)

Netwide Assembler (NASM) rc2 has a heap-based buffer over-read in the function tokenize in asm/preproc.c, related to an unterminated string.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00015.html
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-07/msg00017.html
bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392446
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8881
usn.ubuntu.com/3694-1/

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