CVE-2023-38668

MediumCVSS 5.5

Published: 22/08/2023(UTC)Updated: 17/06/2026(UTC)Translated: 19/06/2026(UTC)NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk

0.26%

17th percentile - higher than 17% of all known CVEs

A stack-based buffer over-read vulnerability in nasm version 2.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to trigger a denial of service, potentially leading to application downtime.

It is recommended to update nasm to the latest version to mitigate this vulnerability.

Original NVD description (English source)

Stack-based buffer over-read in disasm in nasm 2.16 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).