CVE-2018-8882: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

March 20, 2018 (updated July 13, 2020)

Netwide Assembler (NASM) rc2 has a stack-based buffer under-read in the function ieee_shr in asm/float.c via a large shift value.

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=3392445
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8882

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