What is CVE-2018-19213?

CVE-2018-19213 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nasm Netwide Assembler, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-11-12.

How severe is CVE-2018-19213?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Nasm Netwide Assembler

CVE-2018-19213

Netwide Assembler (NASM) through 2.14rc16 has memory leaks that may lead to DoS, related to nasm_malloc in nasmlib/malloc.c.

EPSS: 0.007 (51.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Nasm Netwide_assembler — versions 12.14
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-772 — Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-19213?: CVE-2018-19213 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Nasm Netwide Assembler, classified under Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2018-11-12.
How severe is CVE-2018-19213?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.