CVE-2020-18974

low
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
2.5

Description

Buffer Overflow in Netwide Assembler (NASM) v2.15.xx allows attackers to cause a denial of service via 'crc64i' in the component 'nasmlib/crc64'. This issue is different than CVE-2019-7147.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-18974

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-18974.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archaffected
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormaffected
debian debianbullseyeaffected
debian debianforkyaffected
debian debiansidaffected
debian debiantrixieaffected

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.