USN-8248-2

USN-8248-1 fixed vulnerabilities in NASM. Unfortunately the update introduced a regression which could cause NASM to crash. This update fixes the problem by reverting the fix for CVE-2021-33450 and CVE-2021-33452 in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Original advisory details:

Daisy Chen discovered that NASM was vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow when handling certain input. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NASM to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2023-31722)

It was discovered that NASM incorrectly handled memory allocation. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause NASM to use excessive resources, leading to a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-33452, CVE-2021-33450)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:24.04:LTS / nasm

Package

Name: nasm
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/nasm@2.16.01-1ubuntu0.1~esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/noble

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2.16.01-1ubuntu0.1~esm2

Affected versions

2.*

2.16.01-1

2.16.01-1build1

2.16.01-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability":  "Available with Ubuntu Pro: https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "nasm",
            "binary_version":  "2.16.01-1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves":  [
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2021-33450",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "medium",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2021-33452",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "low",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem":  "Ubuntu:Pro:24.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-8248-2.json"