GLSA 201903-19: NASM: Multiple vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	NASM: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:	03/28/2019
Bugs:	#635358, #659550, #670884
ID:	201903-19

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in NASM, the worst of which could result in the remote execution of arbitrary code.

Background

NASM is a 80x86 assembler that has been created for portability and modularity. NASM supports Pentium, P6, SSE MMX, and 3DNow extensions. It also supports a wide range of objects formats (ELF, a.out, COFF, etc), and has its own disassembler.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
dev-lang/nasm	< 2.14.02	>= 2.14.02	All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NASM. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could cause a Denial of Service condition or execute arbitrary code.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All NASM users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-lang/nasm-2.14.02"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201903-19.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.