CVE-2018-1000886: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

December 20, 2018 (updated February 1, 2019)

nasm rc5 contains a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in asm/stdscan.c:130 that can result in Stack-overflow caused by triggering endless macro generation, crash the program. This attack appear to be exploitable via a crafted nasm input file.

References

bugzilla.nasm.us/show_bug.cgi?id=3392514
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000886

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