What is CVE-2023-51258?

CVE-2023-51258 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tortall Yasm, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-01-18.

How severe is CVE-2023-51258?

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

Vulnerability in Tortall Yasm

CVE-2023-51258

A memory leak issue discovered in YASM v.1.3.0 allows a local attacker to cause a denial of service via the new_Token function in the modules/preprocs/nasm/nasm-pp:1512.

EPSS: 0.003 (17.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Tortall Yasm — versions 1.3.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-401 — Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-51258?: CVE-2023-51258 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Tortall Yasm, classified under Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2024-01-18.
How severe is CVE-2023-51258?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.