GLSA 202312-09: NASM: Multiple Vulnerabilities

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Severity:	high
Title:	NASM: Multiple Vulnerabilities
Date:	12/22/2023
Bugs:	#686720, #903755
ID:	202312-09

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in NASM, the worst of which could lead to arbitrary code execution.

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	< 2.16.01	>= 2.16.01	All supported architectures

Description

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

Impact

Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.

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-2.16.01"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-202312-09.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.