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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-20535

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Dec 28, 2018

Added

Jan 20, 2025

Modified

Mar 25, 2026

Description

There is a use-after-free at asm/preproc.c (function pp_getline) in Netwide Assembler (NASM) 2.14rc16 that will cause a denial of service during a line-number increment attempt.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf

References

CVE-2018-20535
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-20535
CWE-416
EUVD-EUVD-2018-13089
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-13089

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